Making that metaphor with "consuming" something, as if to say you're "digesting" it and then "realeasing" it... was a disturbing visual image but an imapctful one.
This reminded me of Ted Gioia's article on the state of culture:
We had ART.
ENTERTAINMENT ate art.
DISTRACTION ate entertainment.
There's this visual of 3 fishes, one progressively bigger than other, eating each other.
Making that metaphor with "consuming" something, as if to say you're "digesting" it and then "realeasing" it... was a disturbing visual image but an imapctful one.
This reminded me of Ted Gioia's article on the state of culture:
We had ART.
ENTERTAINMENT ate art.
DISTRACTION ate entertainment.
There's this visual of 3 fishes, one progressively bigger than other, eating each other.