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Class is back (sort of)

Class is back (sort of)

On the cultural boredom debates

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Sep 12, 2022
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The Setup

Last week’s micro-debate over the demise of contemporary culture went something like this: 

In a May Substack post, literary critic Christian Lorentzen wrote that Biden-era culture, like Biden-era politics, is mostly boring. The culprit, he argued, is the hegemony of the brand: “The cult of marketing is the reason for cultural boredom.”

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