Victor Pelevin. Empire V (№ 216726)

The goal of glamour is to the human life passed in a cloud of shame and self-contempt. This is a condition called "original sin" is a direct result of the consumption of images of beauty, success and intellectual brilliance. Glamour and discourse immerse their consumers in misery, idiocy and poverty. These qualities, of course, relative. But suffer they make really. In the experience of shame and misery is the whole of human life.