i'm back! sorry it's been awhile- i acquired a new hairstyle, a pair of serious shoulderpads, and a pet orchid- Greta. her smile gets in the way of her face, too.
"...our culture encourages us to sit in front of a flickering box [...] and thereby watch, as if from a distance, the time of our lives flow through our hands like dry sand" (Hartmann 109)
"[...] we're all born evil and stupid (Hartmann 127) in a state of helpless submission to the economic and technological mechanisms modern man has created [...] curiously disguised as progress, freedom, and the mastery of man over nature" (Mumford 244)