Whisky Van Gogh Go

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Influential, Terribly

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
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Andy Warhol. I discovered this quote in a bit that compares Jobs to architect Normal Foster, the subtext being that in some parallel universe, Jay-Z could afford a better cellular phone that you. This is not currently the case.

This a double-edged sword for the American Experiment. If you agree with the folks in the Occupy Wall Street protest, that the disparity between the 1% and the 99% is unjust, then we have a real problem on our hands. Revolution will not happen until conditions are intolerable. As long as most of us can continue to get by on pathetic wages and somehow still scrape together enough change to pay for our iPhones, things aren’t really that bad.

I hate to cite Fight Club, but fuck you if you don’t think it’s one of the most important stories of our time, so anyway: Before things get better, they must get much, much worse.

* this is also why I do a hard eye-roll when people try to draw parallels between whatever’s-going-on-right-now and the fall of the Roman Empire.

Posted 7 months ago
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