[...] In the first of the unpublished scenes for TPK, we can read: "The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths" (551)
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[...] I work as a product manager alongside a team of engineers and designers, eat lunch for free, socialize and discuss current events with my co-workers, and leave the premises late in the evenings. The work is immersive and all-consuming; every feature and bug is carefully triaged, every assumpt…
[...] Others speak of the emptiness of consumer culture. Zoubeir [...] told Thomson, "When you see that the only project of Western democracies today is to offer people purchasing power, that's empty, that doesn't make you want to live."
Or take the late-night shows--they are so conservative in their comedy. It's the worst thing! It does the opposite of what comedy's supposed to do. If comedy is supposed to open people's minds, then you go to Colbert, for instance, and all he does is thirty Trump-is-shit jokes? Everyone knows this!…
Because otherwise you have cultures that are mired in their own ways of thinking--there's no development, there's no provocation to think differently. You have to provoke. You have to create a bit of uncertainty. Unless you believe that everything's perfect and that people shouldn't question th…
