“We no longer eat; we consume food. We no longer read books; we consume content. We no longer listen to music or watch films; we consume media. We are no longer artists and aesthetes (sahṛdaya, those ‘possessed of heart’); we have allowed ourselves to be redefined solely as producers and consumers in the global marketplace, and what’s more, started to take pride in this vocabulary of production and consumption.”

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/08/09/the-dance-of-siva/?src=longreads