Herostratus’s insatiable, almost feverish craving for the hyperreal – the exaggerated simulations and imitations of reality, rather than authentic reality itself – drove him to an abject act of destruction of something beautiful and beloved.
Mainstream Culture is a reflection of public hypocrisy. It has always resembled one of those bloated, drawn out weddings, where everyone knows that the groom is fucking the mother-in-law in the bathroom.