How to pronounce “self gratification” in English

And if we're focused on self gratification, and by extension itself-- in part because the marketplace keeps delivering all this capability to allow us to focus

As soon as you start talking about self, and self gratification, and the power to self gratify, it's pretty awkward.

In "The Impulse Society," he talks about how the urge for instant self gratification has permeated every aspect of our culture, why that's bad,

On top of all those things, it's the fact that we're so focused on self gratification-- and by extension, the self-- that the self begins