From the "You can't make this stuff up" department. Here's a post on USENET re the passing of writer J.G. Ballard (CRASH, EMPIRE OF THE SUN):
"I see the young British artists of the past ten years or so from a different perspective. They find themselves in a world totally dominated by advertising, by a corrupt politics carried out as a branch of advertising, and by a reality that is a total fiction controlled by manufacturers, PR firms, and vast entertainment and media corporations. Nothing is real, everything is fake. Bizarrely, most people like it that way..."--JGB
media corporations. Nothing is real, everything is fake. Bizarrely, most people like it that way.
[And here's the response from the USENET poster]
Good grief! Do people really think that way? Out here in flyover country, reality is still pretty real. We work (those of us who still have jobs), raise our children, and have pretty satisfying lives. What the hell is with artists?
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