Tuesday, November 07, 2017

AYAD AKHTAR Quote in Time mag Nov 13 2017

. Money is the thing. “Finance has begun to condition and define what we think of as being human,” Akhtar says. “It’s tearing the fabric of collective well-being apart.”

 

Speaking about the ills of society, he uses phrases like attention-finance complex and defines them with explanations like, “The advent of the technology that “has now instrumentalized and allowed the corporate-financed totalitarian regime to monetize the very process of consciousness,”

 

Technology is destroying our agency. Individualism is rotting is our morality. We are ultimately consumers .An almost visible cartoon thought bubble, full of scribbled formulas and ideas, floats above his head. “He’s g committed to writing plays that  bring on stage the things that trouble our society’s sleep,”” junk “director Doug Hughes says. “He’s not going to stay dutifully in one lane, and thank God he isn’t

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