Life is photography, always with a high zoom. Today's life, at least. An entire media centered around making people feel close to lifestyles and people a thousand miles away. "I feel like I associate with the people from 'Friends,'" etc. People who can't take the zoom off long enough to see that which surrounds them. Permanently looking past, looking right by, ignoring, those which allow them to live. It's a form of selfishness, actually. A way to reduce the world to that which is too far away to matter and to yourself. The people in the middle, the real people, they are immaterial.