What we can do to shield ourselves from today’s hyperreal culture

I'm currently reading the excellent book "The Trouble with Paris" by Mark Sayers. Mark talks about how today's media culture drastically influences our perception of what life is about. Many people today feel that their lives are inadequate and insignificant only because they fall short of the ideal of celebrities, movie actors or computer game heroes.
I find this book a real eye opener and would like to recommend it to anyone of you who can at least partly identify her/himself with what was said in the previous paragraph. I would like to share some passages of the book here that particularly spoke to me:
"In many ways the real world is the flip side of hyperreality. It is the same world in which people have lived throughout the course of human history. I think that we know that deep down, but we prefer to live under the illusion that the hyperreal dream is just around the corner for us. The mundane nature of our real lives simply seems to make the glamour of the hyperreal world all the more appealing."
"With fast-paced music videos, action-packed video games, and a vast array of other forms of entertainment on offer to youth in the West, young people at the beginning of the 21^st century are accustomed to being constantly entertained […] Life is NOT edited like movies are. In reality we have to face the mundane nature of life: we have to wash the dishes, pay the bills, and rest our bodies to survive. […] When we do encounter the inevitable periods of the mundane in life, we become bored and see this as evidence of the poor nature of our lives. We say to ourselves that if our lives really meant something, we would not be bored; we would be doing something interesting all the time."
Mark goes on and offers a lot of practical help how to live a significant, meaningful and fulfilled life despite the often obtrusive media culture surrounding us. Such a great and helpful book!