@sean_ae there is like a background menace in everyday interactions, like a subsurface hostility that is always simmering and ready to boil over. The advertisements have a hospice quality of succumbing acceptance, like the way out is through inevitably purchasing something, and interactions are kind of anxiety transactions of time, where everything needs to be conveyed quickly. This is what the larger culture seems like, there are obviously small pockets of good interactions and culture as well.