I really found chapter 35 interesting because there were several allusions to the conscious and unconscious that Ishmael channels from when explaining the experience of the mast with the high winds. In consciousness, he realizes that, and to paraphrase, uneventfulness is witnessed when there is no news, or extras’, indicating entertainment and consumerism that feeds off of people’s souls. There is one particular text he says, which is: “…it is much deplored that the place which you devote so considerable a portion of…your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness… a comfortable localness of feeling…a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit….” This text in particular is critical because it challenges artificial, man-made transcendence through these mediums of vanity and how we as humans are wired to find comfort in sedentary life fascinated by consumerism. In this way, the author warns us that we become too comfortable to actually be our full potential as we isolate and hide in these mediums for comfort. ‘Cosy inhabitiveness’ contradicts itself as both words are nothing alike, juxtaposing themselves and working against. This is written into the line in order to convey “otherness” to the medium, making readers realize that the comfort we often resort to in society is almost always consumed in media to make us feel elated and transcended. By doing so, we do ourselves the disservice of breaking free from toxic consumerism/ advertisements telling people how to live their lives in order to gain money out of people’s worldviews. This becomes dangerous as we breath in media and make it a social propaganda that divides instead of reframes conceptual ideas and infrastructure.