I suspect it's what media consumption does to people, along the lines of David Foster Wallace, who famously threw his TV out. It makes it easy to experience pe

I suspect it's what media consumption does to people, along the lines of David Foster Wallace, who famously threw his TV out. It makes it easy to experience perfection without doing anything. You can feel the perfect romance of beautiful people, and take a perfect vacation - without actively doing anything yourself. But that raises your expectations for everything. So you don't do anything yourself anymore, you just consume. That, combined with a meaningless work, or rather a busyness fetish (dont want to be seen as lazy even though you're not productive), creates the mordern life. No, thank you. I take imperfection and less neuroticism (and less work hours) any day over this.