We no longer need to be encouraged to imagine fancier or better or more. The very existence of a given person, place, or thing now immediately conjures a better, more beautiful, more enticing version of the same. We are so conscribed by the market-driven mind-set that we can no longer experience anything outside of the context of “more” and “better.” We can’t take things as they are. We have moved on to the upgrade before we’ve even engaged with what we have right here, right now.
