The cheap, socially available simulacrum

“And all the great inventions reach the crowd in the form of toys (crystal-sets, motor-cars), and it is as helpless children that, for the most part, it participates in these stirring events. (That it is as children, as resolute and doctrinaire Peter Pans indeed, that most people wish to live, is equally true; but that is not here the issue.)” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, appendix, p. 124.