Friday, August 8, 2008

Lord of the Memes

David Brooks in yesterday's New York Times
on or about June 29, 2007, human character changed. That, of course, was the release date of the first iPhone.

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This transition has produced some new status rules. In the first place, prestige has shifted from the producer of art to the aggregator and the appraiser. ...

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Second, in order to cement your status in the cultural elite, you want to be already sick of everything no one else has even heard of. ...

(via Just One Minute)

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