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I just read this article...
http://www.mobylives.com/Lissner_Y.html
and i was really surprised at how much it got to me.
it's the whole media frenzy about having to categorize every-bloody-thing that they lay their hands on. it happens with everything. the new velvet underground. the new gates. the new salinger.
it's almost like the ability to judge something on its merits, as opposed to its comparative values, has been lost. and it's sad.
for a start. generation y? do you feel you belong to that? fit its criteria? it's just a scene.
i actually think it's for the better that a so called 'spokesperson' hasn't been 'anointed' (who decides these things?). is it not far better to have a diverse and interesting literary field rather than a pigeonholed coupland and assorted clones?
does anyone else see the contradiction in writing books for the mtv generation?
http://www.mobylives.com/Lissner_Y.html
and i was really surprised at how much it got to me.
it's the whole media frenzy about having to categorize every-bloody-thing that they lay their hands on. it happens with everything. the new velvet underground. the new gates. the new salinger.
it's almost like the ability to judge something on its merits, as opposed to its comparative values, has been lost. and it's sad.
for a start. generation y? do you feel you belong to that? fit its criteria? it's just a scene.
i actually think it's for the better that a so called 'spokesperson' hasn't been 'anointed' (who decides these things?). is it not far better to have a diverse and interesting literary field rather than a pigeonholed coupland and assorted clones?
does anyone else see the contradiction in writing books for the mtv generation?