Mass society, that which entertains itself, is characterized precisely by its lack of memory, by its incapacity to digest that has been eaten[....] there is no memory, no interiority, where there is no 'I'. Mass society is not a digestive apparatus, but a channel through which sensations flow, in order to be eliminated without being digested. What characterizes mass culture is not consumption, but its opposite: the refuse or trash.

Entertainment is the accumulation of sensations to be eliminated undigested. Once 'world' and 'I' are put into parentheses, sensation passes without obstacles. There is neither someithng to be digested not an interiority to digest it. There is neither intenstine nor the necessity of an intenstine. What are left are mouths to swallow the sensation and anuses to eliminate it. Mass society is a society of channels that are more primitive than worms: in worms there are digestive functions. The'worm-like' feeling, by which we are sometimes taken over, is an optimistic sensation. Concrete sensationalism is more primitive than worms.

[Despite all this], there still persists in us some remains of interiorit. These mainfest themselves in two forms. one is the interest that the refuse awakens in us: the awareness that we are being fed shit. The other is our tendency to stir the shit.

[...] Nothing is being taken seriously, everything entertains us. Not only the programs aimed explictly at entertainment. We devour everything with sensationalist attitude. Art, philosophy, science, politics, including the events that relate to our concrete experience: hunger, sickness, and oppression. Our work entertains us. Our human relations entertain us. We are incapable of seriousness [...]

Flusser, Post-History