The development of Dogma continues, and as you may have noticed some of the design ideas have spilled over here. In lieu of any writing on my part, I offer a passage from Kierkegaard, which seems to describe both my sense of the dehumanization wrought by consumerism and Neva's and filchyboy's sense of Paris Hilton's dehumanization. That's quite an accomplishment for something written more than a hundred years ago.

...Although the demoralization brought about by autocracy and the decay of revolutionary periods have been described, the decay of an age without passion is something just as harmful though, on account of its ambiguity, it is less obvious.

It may not be without interest to consider this point. More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker). The indolent mass which understands nothing and does nothing itself, this gallery, is on the lookout for distraction and soon abandons itself to the idea that everything that anyone does is done in order to give it (the public) something to gossip about. That indolent mass sits with its legs crossed, wearing an air of superiority, and anyone who tries to work, whether king, official, school teacher or better type of journalist, the poet or the artist, has to struggle to drag the public along with it, while the public thinks in its own superior way that it is the horse.