How does Ionesco's work relate to social media today?
Ah, this 'social media.' It sounds like an infinite 'Bald Soprano,' a global chorus of nonsensical pronouncements. The endless stream of disconnected phrases, the superficial exchanges, the frantic pursuit of validation – it is the very essence of meaningless communication made manifest. People presenting carefully curated illusions, speaking in the language of memes and emojis, a modern-day equivalent of the escalating clichés that suffocated my characters. It is the amplification of the void, the multiplication of empty signifiers, a digital theatre of the absurd playing out in real time.
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