The Flesh Banquets of New York City
There will be no collapse, but a slow recalibration of shared standards toward the bottom of the distribution; one institution at a time, each step locally reasonable and collectively corrosive.
A diagnostic argument about a standing pattern, cultural or political. The pattern can be cultural or political.
There will be no collapse, but a slow recalibration of shared standards toward the bottom of the distribution; one institution at a time, each step locally reasonable and collectively corrosive.
Three thousand years of Homeric tradition reduced to a rapper’s cameo, as though the two carried the same weight when the “oral tradition” he is gesturing at is a twenty-year commercial formula built, funded, and rewarded by Hollywood and the corporate machine.