Cookie Dough Nation (first attempt)

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Cor 11

Nick and I talked about culture tonight. I was still thinking about the conversation about Chuck Klosterman I'd had with threepunchstuff and we were on a similar topic: what the hell happened to culture in the last

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[hep]

a++++ post i memoried it. more later im about out the door

[cowboyjoey]

Is it an issue of culture or one of identity?

In any given day we're innundated with the pressure to be individual and unique, but let's face it, most of us on the exterior are pretty boring and within the two standard deviations of any normal curve. It doesn't surprise me then that people mish-mash all sorts of poorly thought out pop culture relics in order to manufacture some bizarre franken-retro style. And due to the ecclectic nature, it has to be inherently cool, otherwise why would anyone attempt it? It's the only way to be unique. Retro has been done to death, so there's little left than mashing it all together.

Couple that with our creep towards hedonistic instant gratification and you're left with your housewife with the half eaten bar of cookie dough, running her lipo'd butt to the tonka truck of a jeep only she thinks is hip.