Interesting. Is this a message that we should all conform to standardized tastes because weirdness is merely postured phoniness? Is this another manifestation of the anti-intellectual conformity required by the media industry? “Don’t be different. Buy our products like everyone else. Otherwise, you’re just an egocentric, la-tee-da phony.â€
If freakishness is postured phoniness, (as indeed seems common in both the pop and legit cultural worlds,) then who do you think represents a genuinely unique and outside voice? Or would committing to a view on that be too weird? 🙂
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Interesting. Is this a message that we should all conform to standardized tastes because weirdness is merely postured phoniness? Is this another manifestation of the anti-intellectual conformity required by the media industry? “Don’t be different. Buy our products like everyone else. Otherwise, you’re just an egocentric, la-tee-da phony.â€
If freakishness is postured phoniness, (as indeed seems common in both the pop and legit cultural worlds,) then who do you think represents a genuinely unique and outside voice? Or would committing to a view on that be too weird? 🙂
Sun Ra.
Maybe Screamin’ Jay.