It's hard, therefore, to keep that kind of crucial distance. It's hard to be critical. It's hard to think about what might be going on at the top, especially if the media doesn't tell you. It's hard to figure out who you are and what you really want. It's hard to make your own music because that thing is always there listening, watching, taking notes, and packaging something so that it can sell you more stuff.
Kids feel frightened and lonely today.
It's because they are encouraged to feel that way. Advertising has always sold anxiety and it certainly sells anxiety to the young. That's the nature of advertising, to keep you hungering for more of the stuff that's supposed to finally put you there, but never does. It's so thoroughly about being on display. It's about how you look.