The Power of The Infra-Ordinary
"not the crisis of attention but the crisis of interest"
"are we losing interest in things that matter?"
"are we losing interest in everyday life?"
The conflict between the subjective centrality of our own lives versus our awareness of its objective insignificance. Atwater knew—as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud—that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great sy
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