I had
never really understood how a nation that so celebrated the individual could
obliterate all difference the way this country did. In a system of mass
production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are
identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical
restaurants, identical motels, and, as an extension of these, by identical TV
screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical
entertainment and identical dreams. Not even the Soviet Union at the height of
its power had succeeded in creating such a unified, collective identify as the
one Americans lived their lives within.
Karl
Ove Knausgaard
From "Knausgaard in America," New York Times Magazine, March 1, 2015
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