Only unlike the Warhol, Koons etc., Hirst has completely abandon anything thing that ties him to the culture at large except our collective obsession to commodity and celebrity.

He also introduced sweeping changes; in the original, the Borough is largely oblivious to Grimes, while in the opera Grimes becomes a collective obsession.

That he chose to perfect a conventional form and a highly popular one means simply that he took a collective obsession seriously, as one is more inclined to do who views such things from a little distance.

Avenging themselves on this swimming behemoth becomes the collective obsession of the rich, powerful and scheming Braswell clan.

A San Francisco Chronicle review also notes the book's recurring commentary on media influence: "Flynn pokes smart fun at cable news, our collective obsession with social media and reality TV."

To the Editor: I chuckled my way through Maureen Dowd's Jan. 12 column about our collective obsession with making money.

The Doctor reasons that since Jamie was the template, it is his mind that drives them hence their collective obsession with finding a mother.

In "The Famine Within," an eye-opening documentary about American women's collective obsession with body weight, Katherine Gilday makes a thorough and cogent case for the larger importance of this issue.

Our collective obsession with soft touches smokes this dark conflict out into the open.