Anyone else disgusted by the thought of a special club of well-connected journos and socialites elevating the status and relevance of themselves and their group to national levels, because they have the powerful influence of national media? It's "fun" and "cool" and "hip" because they're in it, and since they are the writers they get to determine the reality of those things.
Isn't this the most bourgeoisie thing you can think of?
>> It's "fun" and "cool" and "hip" because they're in it, and since they are the writers they get to determine the reality of those things.
The fashion industry. Youtube. Influencers. Fyre Festival. The definition of what is or isn't cool/hot has always been at the hands of the media darlings. While those darlings cannot stop talking about how great the party is, the absolutely last thing they want is for the general public to be allowed in.
I don’t read their bullshit anymore because it’s become so disgustingly preachy and evangelizing since the 2016 election.
It’s really brought out the worst shit from people who were supposed to be on the respectable side of the fence. Instead, it’s now this repellant secular moral panic, and it’s just fucking unreadable, unwatchable, you name it, and I don’t want it.
It was disappointing to see Fox News emerge at the close of the Clinton administration in the late 1990’s, and we had one really bad 24 hour news channel on one end of the political spectrum throughout The Global War On Terror. But now, instead of just the NASCAR red state ‘murica subculture, all other factions have adopted the same tactics, and almost no useful media source exists anymore.
It’s like Fox News correlates to Korn or Limp Bizkit, and now we’re in the nu metal period of media outlets, and just blaming a presidential administration isn’t any kind of excuse for such tantrums and egotism. It’s all really shallow and petty.
The media bourgeoisie have long done this sort of cross promotion and elevation, but it takes some audacity to pull off a display like this to further increase notoriety.
There’s probably a name for it or a better way of classifying people, but it seems to me you have the “cool” (n), their fans (1000n), and everyone else who either doesn’t get celebrity or doesn’t care about the specific cultural subject.
I can't read the article but enjoyed the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle from about twenty years ago. It inspired me to read the Dorothy Parker biography What the Fresh Hell is This? which was even better.
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Isn't this the most bourgeoisie thing you can think of?
The fashion industry. Youtube. Influencers. Fyre Festival. The definition of what is or isn't cool/hot has always been at the hands of the media darlings. While those darlings cannot stop talking about how great the party is, the absolutely last thing they want is for the general public to be allowed in.
It’s really brought out the worst shit from people who were supposed to be on the respectable side of the fence. Instead, it’s now this repellant secular moral panic, and it’s just fucking unreadable, unwatchable, you name it, and I don’t want it.
It was disappointing to see Fox News emerge at the close of the Clinton administration in the late 1990’s, and we had one really bad 24 hour news channel on one end of the political spectrum throughout The Global War On Terror. But now, instead of just the NASCAR red state ‘murica subculture, all other factions have adopted the same tactics, and almost no useful media source exists anymore.
It’s like Fox News correlates to Korn or Limp Bizkit, and now we’re in the nu metal period of media outlets, and just blaming a presidential administration isn’t any kind of excuse for such tantrums and egotism. It’s all really shallow and petty.
There’s probably a name for it or a better way of classifying people, but it seems to me you have the “cool” (n), their fans (1000n), and everyone else who either doesn’t get celebrity or doesn’t care about the specific cultural subject.