Love is centrifugal, hate centripetal. Demons must hilarify as they watch while we are drawn to someone unable, or unwilling, to love us. It is easy to be cruel. One need only not love.
“The consumer and entertainment landscape dominates everything, but it’s nothing but wallpaper. The real problem is that it (the consumer and entertainment landscape) is the only wallpaper — every other form of competition for people’s attention and imaginations has been vanquished.”
J. G. Ballard