I've been meaning to put these two quotations up for a while now, but the books are at home and I usually blog at the office. I read both of these within about a month of each other and was struck by the contrast.
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[The iPod] is a strategic device permitting the user to shape experience in a manner they are unable to accomplish on their own. In iPod culture, successful experience is invariably mediated experience.
--Michael Bull, Sound moves, p. 133
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.
Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.
--John Krakauer, Into the wild, pp. 22-23
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