I find it deeply depressing to think the people aspire to become advertisements, but it also makes perfect sense in a world that privileges ads and ad space over virtually everything else and values it precisely. If you can be an ad, then the whole world revolves around you. Your place in the world is assured and affirmed anytime you look at a scre... See more

This democratization of authenticity was the final nail in the Hipster’s coffin: solid, material proof that any pursuit of authenticity is foolish, because authenticity itself is fake, in the sense that any other marketing gimmick is perceivably “fake” — therefore rendering it useless as a tool to sell scarcity.