Part 2--Reality Hunger by Shields 81-83

238.( What is considered to be vogue now is a purposeful confusion of the realms.)
239. We yearn for the "real" as we live the life as it is, we want to pose something nonfictional against all the fabrication.
240. Mimetic(metaphor) function that is used in rhetoric: "Anything that exists in the culture is fair game to assimilate into a new work, and having preexisting media of some kind in the new piece is thrilling in a way that "fiction"can't be."
241.We are riveted(attracted)by the rawness of something that appears to be direct from the source, or at least less worked over than a polished mass-media production. Compared with the well-furnished thoughts and things, people are more fond of seeking something that is natural, that is being left as it is.
242. Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any. (Once we experience, it is not real?)
-- from Doctor Harkey: simultaneous wanting reality and illusion?...
243-244. People are overwhelmed by  calamitous information, while Shields prefer to seek and compose rather than write things down. He wants to jump out of the sample circle and to generate some of his own things.
245-246. The rising sophistication of the nonexpert in combination with the sensory overload of the culture makes reality-based and self-reflexive art appealing now. e.g, Kathy Griffin jumps out of the constraints of a network time slot.
247. We are now, officially, lost.