"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Man Who "Made" Paris Hilton
Submitted by Robert Kaercher on Wed, 2011-11-02 20:52
"'When all the artists were doing what we now call Impressionism, they couldn't name it at the time so they just said, "squiggly painting," "crazy artists." That's what "famous for being famous" sounds like to me: a person not being able to properly define what a movement is and what that movement was doing.'" An interesting study in our virtually contentless popular culture.
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