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Blind acceptance is a sign of stupid fools who stand in line.

Remember that Girl Talk documentary about the remix culture and how MacBooks were going to change the world? By fostering, uh, the urge just to work on other people’s work rather than make your own work? Jeez. It seems likely that there won’t be any new songs or movies within thirty years. Is there a psychological description for nostalgia’s obvious economic puissance? Like, how many times do I have to hear ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ before I’m totally done with it?

Notes

  1. unbornwhiskey said: Ain’t postmodernism all about exploiting nostalgia? What is our “own work”? I don’t think remix culture and remade films are entirely analagous, but who is to say what is “new” and whether it is aesthetically better than renegotiated “old”?
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