Marya Hornbacher Quote

My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet aids, plastic surgery, a pop culture wherein the hyper-cool, blank-eyed supermodel was a hero. This is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of eating nothing but candy bars – you get malnourished and tired. We grew up in a world in which the surface of the thing is infinitely more important than its substance – and where the surface of the thing had to be perfect, urbane, sophisticated, blasé, . I would suggest that if you grow up trying constantly to be an adult, a adult, you will be sick of being grown up by the time you’re old enough to drink.

Marya Hornbacher

My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet aids, plastic surgery, a pop culture wherein the hyper-cool, blank-eyed supermodel was a hero. This is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of eating nothing but candy bars – you get malnourished and tired. We grew up in a world in which the surface of the thing is infinitely more important than its substance – and where the surface of the thing had to be perfect, urbane, sophisticated, blasé, . I would suggest that if you grow up trying constantly to be an adult, a adult, you will be sick of being grown up by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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