Sunday, February 03, 2013

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Obama is in, Bush is out.

My theory is that this is what is driving the sudden social acceptability, indeed trendiness of something almost universally accepted to be bad - pretentiousness, in exactly the same way that Bush and the Neocons drove a worldwide trend of being proud of excess - also previously regarded as bad.

People employ the reading of books in this decade in the same manner that people used to employ spray on tans a decade ago.

Pretentious - Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

the pity is that while Bush drove a 'be an idiot, loud and proud.' vibe, it wasn't replaced with being quiet and maybe standing back to respect expertise and considered approach, it was 'attempt to conceal your idiocy, loudly and proudly.'

While I did feel relief for the world that the Neocons were eventually ousted, and there was a shift back leftwards, while the democrats may be less wantonly damaging as the republicans, they are at least equally annoying. Particularly in their effect on social trends.

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