A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery, most of it fictional in content, inundates our minds. How do we make sense of this ceaseless flow of advertising and publicity, news and entertainment?
“Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old
and they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet –
this is what desires resemble that have passed
without fulfillment; without any of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.”
Constantine P. Cavafy