in the most hilarious ways.

 By increasing the fragmentation of tasks and the nuclearization of the social (I continued), the bureaucratic-technocratic logic engenders passivity and disqualification, boredom and irresponsibility, loneliness and chronic frustration of all citizens of a country, including those who consider themselves professionally, emotionally and sexually fulfilled. It is precisely in this area that mass culture finds the necessary gap to make people evade reality, deluding themselves in the most hilarious ways. By opening the unlimited field of projections and false identifications, passive mental attitudes are encouraged, imaginary and creative faculties are dulled, and spiritual pride and the fierce intellect that passes between the descriptions standardized by common sense are discouraged. Thus, mass culture only expands the sphere of subjective dispossession (.) -----, I concluded. After we ate, we walked along Madison Ave., reading all the names of the buildings around us. An incomprehensible joy had taken hold of me after she finally noticed my gray suit from the A. Shop; gray, shiny, rayon, with a double-breasted jacket!