more broadly to all sorts of people who were just cogs in giant machines and see the internet as an opportunity to break free from that. 100%. That's definitely true. I agree with that, and we can explore that all day, every day. I think it's absolutely true. What I mean about capitalism or commercialization is that so many otherwise intimate moments or things that previously were not monetizable have become monetizable today. Reality TV, the phenomenon of reality TV is a big part of that. You see that with influencers, people that basically use the same medium that you and I might use to share moments of our personal lives. They use those to monetize their lives. In a variety of ways, which again, I think there is a connection there, the same connection that speaks to why we fulfill so many of our ritualistic desires through commercial technologies and products. In terms of the personality-driven media, this is also something that fascinates me, because of course in the United States (32/38)
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