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I didn't make it to the conclusion. I didn't make it past: > So there you have it: the three aesthetics of the creative class. Some people are playing Dwight,

I didn't make it to the conclusion. I didn't make it past: > So there you have it: the three aesthetics of the creative class. Some people are playing Dwight, some people are playing Michael, and some people are playing Andy. I only have so much time left in my life to waste But I'm glad the author and I came to similar conclusions. The author takes a turn I agree with at the end, which I didn't see coming from the prior paragraphs (copied the line again for emphasis): > As the internet becomes not only where we draw our cultural and aesthetic cues from, but more importantly where we go practice them and rehearse them throughout our adolescence, our emerging aesthetic as adults will have a lot less to do with our parents and our inherited social standing, and a lot more to do with where we happened to have spent time on the internet frontier growing up

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> I only have so much time left in my life to waste So does everyone else. Which is why we don’t get PhDs in psychology, but instead use in-group memes to communicate information about each other. I’ve absolutely been in conversations—in work, politics and play—where we assigned people we knew to characters in a book, movie or TV show we shared. Ignoring this overlooks a fundamental way people communicate.
- okareaman 5y ago
  > So does everyone else Unless you are over 60, I doubt you feel time running out acutely enough to let that feeling guide your daily actions. If you are younger and those feelings do guide you, congratulations, you are doing it right. > but instead use in-group memes in-group memes are useless to anyone not in the group, but they are useful to signify that one is in the group. I'm don't believe The Office characters rise to the level of being generally useful for communication. It's like "Friends" which I know is popular and been in the news recently. If you said "Oh she is so blah-blah (Friends character name)" I wouldn't have a clue.
- daniellarusso 5y ago
  We all know a ‘Lennie’ from ‘Of Mice and Men’.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> I only have so much time left in my life to waste So does everyone else. Which is why we don’t get PhDs in psychology, but instead use in-group memes to communicate information about each other. I’ve absolutely been in conversations—in work, politics and play—where we assigned people we knew to characters in a book, movie or TV show we shared. Ignoring this overlooks a fundamental way people communicate.

okareaman 5y ago
> So does everyone else Unless you are over 60, I doubt you feel time running out acutely enough to let that feeling guide your daily actions. If you are younger and those feelings do guide you, congratulations, you are doing it right. > but instead use in-group memes in-group memes are useless to anyone not in the group, but they are useful to signify that one is in the group. I'm don't believe The Office characters rise to the level of being generally useful for communication. It's like "Friends" which I know is popular and been in the news recently. If you said "Oh she is so blah-blah (Friends character name)" I wouldn't have a clue.
daniellarusso 5y ago
We all know a ‘Lennie’ from ‘Of Mice and Men’.