This is Violence

“All it actually means is that even when one remembers something one did not remember one remembered, one may have only scratched the surface in regard to things one does not remember one remembers.”

- Kate

“An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what’s sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill’s real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”

-David Foster Wallace (via graceyu)