The Seer of Unreality Quotes

“Even when you power down your smartphone, Hyperreality never switches off. You are surrounded by it. If someone created a button to make every screen on earth go black permanently, would you press it? Would you want to bring back reality?”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“Dionysus is the dismembered God who comes back together. The Big Bang is where God is dismembered. It’s the God explosion, the Divine Suicide. The cosmic journey – the grand dialectic – is all about restoring the unity of God.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“The world has become a planetary Nozick Experience Machine, mediated by the ubiquitous smartphone. Everyone is plugged in, desperate for their pleasure fix, for their likes, their approvals. They have become addicted to hyperreality, yet hyperreality is soulless. It can’t satisfy exactly because it lacks, well, reality. You have been told you can have it all, you can have the perfect life. You can’t. However, you can be presented with images and experiences as if you had achieved it all. But you haven’t. You have to buy into the fantasy, but deep down there’s something missing. What is missing is you. You yourself have become hyperreal, which means you have lost the real you, and nothing can make up for the loss of yourself. You have become fixed to your persona, your mask, and now there is nothing beneath the mask. When you take the mask off at the end of an exhausting day of faking it, there’s no real face underneath, just a faked face, or a blank space. We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men. Mistah Kurtz, he dead.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“Peter Pan – the boy who wouldn’t grow up – is the patron saint of the modern world.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“Predatory capitalism’s task is to drive up your consumption indefinitely, to ultimately have you consuming all the time. You consume, therefore you are.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“How can reality compete? It’s up against airbrushed, digitally enhanced, technologically perfected “reality”, i.e. “more” than reality.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

“The World has been replaced by the Screen. The more people look at the screen rather than at the world, the more they are in hyperreality. If you are glued to your smartphone – addicted to it – you have turned your back on the reality principle.”
― Mark Romel, The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars