The interesting part about this quote is not the quote itself, which is blatantly false but feels good (how would it sound: "I cannot remember the tiktoks/tv series/comic books I have watched/read...: even so, they have made me"), but how much we succumb to authority.
If the patron of the local pub had delivered the quote in question, we would tell him to put down his tenth beer. But since it was said by an intellectual, who has nothing more to say on the matter than the patron mentioned above could say, we take it at face value.
". . . 'art' is about appropriation. Among its tenets, postmodernism suggests that no work of art or text is anything other than a reassembly of citations; thus, if all art is citations, all art is fair game to be cited."
- An author on a popular product who is questioning copyright.
If the patron of the local pub had delivered the quote in question, we would tell him to put down his tenth beer. But since it was said by an intellectual, who has nothing more to say on the matter than the patron mentioned above could say, we take it at face value.