Fish in water

The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

- Margaret Visser, describing chairs, forks, and hallways in Much Depends on Dinner

The function of ideology is not to offer us a point of escape from our reality but to offer us the social reality itself as an escape from some traumatic, real kernel.

- Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology