Unpopular opinion. If you use “Banger” in a sentence to describe something awesome - i’m going to fantasize about putting you in an inverted leg lock and pretending not to hear you tap
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Or Grant McCracken put it,
”If you are under 25, popular culture is on perpetual spin cycle. Everything is in motion. Except you.”
Memes by definition are idea viruses. And it feels like our cultural immune system is able to move on quicker and quicker. Perhaps built in remixing features on platforms have helped the viruses spread, but has diminish
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The problem with these words isn’t only their floating capacity to enrage but their contaminating quality. Once you hear a word, it’s “in” you. It has penetrated your ears and entered your brain, from which it can’t be selectively removed. Sometimes a phrase will pop into my head that I haven’t heard in years — holistic road map — and I will feel a
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