Will Hines

Kurt Andersen’s sharp piece for Vanity Fair proposes that culture seems frozen for the last 20 years in a way that has not been true in American history. Even if you don’t agree, you will like the sentences:

“I feel as if the whole culture is stoned, listening to an LP that’s been skipping for decades, playing the same groove over and over. Nobody has the wit or gumption to stand up and lift the stylus.”

“Tastefulness scaled.”

“The only thing that has changed fundamentally and dramatically about stylish objects (computerized gadgets aside) during the last 20 years is the same thing that’s changed fundamentally and dramatically about movies and books and music—how they’re produced and distributed, not how they look and feel and sound, not what they are.”