garbled closed-caption normalcy

"The guards are asking the younger children or the older children, 'Who wants to take care of this little boy? Who wants to take of this little girl?' and they’ll bring in a two-year-old, a three-year-old, a four-year-old."

Even though Sinofuturism is partly a spoof, and chaohuan ('ultra-unreal') devised originally as a self-description, i think there is something highly relevant in these loose notions, & not only in regards to modern-day China. When i go to Twitter to see pics & up-to-date weather info on the possibly-devastating storm-in-progress, this feels "ultra-unreal"; people (like Balam Acab, one of my own favs) who vault from Youtube obscurity into instant (sub-)cultural celebrity without ever even touring or playing live; being casually ignored as a matter of course in favor of one's smart phone during conversation; identical cars shaped like space capsules creeping through unending street repairs at 15 MPH; seeing self-published instabooks on the shelf at Half Price; feeling nostalgia for some cultural moment of only seven years ago (vaporwave); designer steetwear (on the Sunday morning show); "drip of the month" (don't ask); Third Wave coffeehouses; nobody much wanting CDs or DVDs anymore; Facebook cyberwarfare; customers coming into our bookstore holding up a picture of the book they want; drone footage used on TV; cancer too slow to worry us anymore; tattoos ceasing to be a class signifier because everyone's got them... These seem chaohuan to me. I only lack the vocabulary to talk about them. (It's WAY past PoMo, that's for sure.) Maybe doctor-autobot & his friends can say... I thought Cassini Diskus might cover it for awhile. How long ago 2016 seems.

Selfie factories.