'Everyone alive right now has grown up with the compensatory low-grade commercial seductions that go with the incessant monetization of human desire. These seductions have set out to undermine (in passing, not in malice) the projects of fidelity, kindness, understanding, sustained attention, self-discipline and self-knowledge, because dissatisfaction, outrage, a short attention span and emotional incontinence make sales and contentment doesn't.'
Jessica Martin, Holiness and Desire, p.167.
