The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy (2010) (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Then your smartphone announces a text message from one of your several thousand network friends, and investigation, briefly distracted by a pop-up offering a choice of three exclusive picture galleries (rebellious rock vixens, the world’s 100 sexiest women and movie stars embarrassed by wardrobe malfunction), reveals an email from your manager scheduling an emergency meeting in the morning and five other emails from fellow team members wondering what the hell is going on. What you need is detachment, concentration, autonomy and privacy, but what the world insists upon is immersion, distraction, collaboration and company. A few images of the times: A flushed, sweating figure in a tracksuit running furiously to stay in place on a gym machine while watching the French Open tennis championships on a gigantic television and listening to Primal Scream on headphones. A woman at the hairdresser’s flicking through the celebrity wedding pictures in HELLO! while having a combined wash and head massage, listening with one ear to the cheery babbling of a radio DJ and with the other to the sad story of the hairdresser whose boyfriend can get an erection only by throttling her to the brink of unconsciousness (‘he’s an ex-soldier and blames it on Afghanistan’).
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