A day is going to come when the kids -- the real ones, not the "kids" who "do the work" by posting on Twitter -- realize that digging deeply into pop culture is a waste of time, that the surface level is also the bottom. On that day, I will be out of a part time job
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
Of course that's true of the surface, but kids (& ghosts on the waiting list) who care about the surface aesthetically (=viscerally) know the best parts are mostly submerged, & don't need it mapped for them by the experts who discovered the Zeitgeist in the middle ground.
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Replying to @clinicalwstmn @MoustacheClubUS
"Experts..." is not directed at you, for what that isn't worth: point is just that intense involvement in the surface (esp. but not exclusive on the part of "kids") entails hyperspecialism & prizes some "obscurities", & that this is NOT "snobbery"/"irrelevance".
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For people who grew up swimming in the pop cultural waters, no explanation will be needed, yet any explanation will too much. Their expertise will far outstrip the "experts" -- it already does -- but in the same wordless way a cat operates far more skillfully than any athlete
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So many explainers and essays that (aside from providing income to the writers, which is always good) serve no purpose, because people who are truly internal to the topic understand it in ways they can never explain without taking some external view
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