too true
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Now we are surrounded by Tocqueville’s predictions brought to life: the gleaming domes of gilded arcades; impossibly smooth, softly lit billboards; rubber-lipped cartoon characters wandering through delightfully artificial amusement parks. When I was little, these strange creatures awakened something in me that I later came to define as a deep longing for the seductions of artificiality; I wanted to dissolve into luminous, perfect, unreal objects.