The Population Explosion of Celebrities are Cancelling Each Other Out
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
The Internet forces me, as a creator, to figure out who I really am and what is unique to me — or to anyone else, for that matter — I like this.
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The Internet forces me to renegotiate my relationship to the celebrity dimension of pop culture. There are too many celebrities now, and they all cancel each other out (15 minutes!) so there aren’t megastars like there used to be. You might as well be eccentric yourself.
The Internet gives me hope that in the future everyone will wear Halloween costumes 365 days a year.
Notes:
With the increasing number of celebrities in the world, the value of each celebrity is reduced, when everyone is a celebrity, we should all fee free to be eccentric ourselves.
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