All cities fall under the curse of Babylon.
Being raised on the Internet is like being an eyeless fish in an underground stream.
Very often, the force which binds your life together, is also the force that sends it flying in all directions later or before.
All modernists are ironists. A modernist without irony is just contemporary.1
‘Downtown’ meme accounts (latest iterations): the revenge of the fame obsessed against the (micro)famous. Or a step further: the lust of the nobody for the somebody.
Epochs defined by literary characters:
1830-1946: the age of Faust