the-celestial-exception:
“What is it about society that disappoints you so much?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe
it’s that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit. The world itself
is just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our burning commentary bullshit
masquerading as insight; Our social media faking as intimacy. Or is
that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our
things, our property, our money. I’m not saying anything new, we all
know why we do this. Not because Hunger Games books makes us happy, but
because we want to be sedated. Because it’s painful not to pretend,
because we’re cowards.
Fuck Society.”
-Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot (2015)
