Thank you for your kind words. I am trying to make philosophy more pertinent to our everyday lives and make it more accessible to non-experts. I am still in a long process of learning how to do the latter.

You are so correct about the pernicious effects of the media. It is as if everything now is becoming either a video game or a reality TV show of simplistic superficial conflicts. Today, politicians aren’t trying to win your vote; they are trying to make the other lose, get you to hate them. Election campaigns are devoid of issues. And because politics and media set the social narrative, that superficial conflict permeates everything. Oh, and the powers that be created the social media tools designed to keep discourse on as superficial a level as possible. Difficult not to be cynical.

And creepier still is that Lyotard and Baudrillard saw all of this happen years before it did.