{"id":540,"date":"2006-08-28T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/28\/deep-thoughts-from-pop-culture-1\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T11:58:22","slug":"deep-thoughts-from-pop-culture-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/28\/deep-thoughts-from-pop-culture-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thoughts from Pop Culture II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the other quote from Chuck Klosterman IV<\/cite> that I mentioned earlier, this one from an essay in Esquire<\/cite> on people who feel betrayed by pop culture:<\/p>\n

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Do you want to be happy? I suspect that you do. Well, here’s the first step to happiness: don’t get pissed off that people who aren’t you happen to think Paris Hilton is interesting and deserves to be on TV every other day; the fame surrounding Paris Hilton is not a reflection on your life (unless you want it to be). Don’t get pissed off because the Yeah Yeah Yeahs aren’t on the radio enough; you can buy the goddamn album and play “Maps” all goddamn day (if that’s what you want). Don’t get pissed off because people didn’t vote the way you voted; you knew this was a democracy when you agreed to participate, so you knew this was how things might work out. Basically, don’t get pissed off over the fact that the way you feel about culture isn’t some kind of universal consensus. Because if you do, you will end up feeling betrayed. And it will be your own fault. You will feel bad, and you will deserve it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a certain irony in the fact that eight pages after this is a piece from Spin<\/cite> about overrated, underrated, and accurately rated bands that’s chock full of bold assertions in a tone that suggests you’re an idiot if you don’t agree (in a certain sense, Klosterman is nothing but a hipster Mike Kozlowski…). In another way, though, that just makes it work better.<\/p>\n

I’m a little more conflicted about this quote– applied too broadly, it seems like a recipe for complacency. The world needs<\/strong> people who are pissed off because other people didn’t vote the way they wanted– otherwise, nothing would ever change.<\/p>\n

It would make a lousy organizing principle for a society. But as a recipe for maintaining your own personal sanity, I think he’s got a good point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the other quote from Chuck Klosterman IV that I mentioned earlier, this one from an essay in Esquire on people who feel betrayed by pop culture: Do you want to be happy? I suspect that you do. Well, here’s the first step to happiness: don’t get pissed off that people who aren’t you happen… Continue reading Deep Thoughts from Pop Culture II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}