hahahahaha
look at this first.10 things white people like
if i was to add a number 11 to this list, it would be: "self-awareness and playing with one's hair to look cute and thoughtful when mugging for the camera"
some pretty heavy IRONY there, given that this is the site creator we're talking about, eh folks?
if i was to add a number 12 to this list, it would be: "the veneration and sexualization of the slacker nerd."
see, my problem with this site (more specifically, the popularity this site has garnered) is that it's content to merely present these things. as is de rigeur, it spoon feeds its patrons with the most surface level observations WITHOUT implying any kind of stance, any kind of urgency, any kind of argument, any kind of significance or conclusion to be drawn from its content.
it's more empty navel-gazing junk along the lines of those vh1 "i love the __'s" shows. it's the stereotypical bad stand-up comic who has to tweak his voice when delivering a joke because the observation it contains is so baldly apparent (white people like impersonating this guy). it's subversion with training wheels permanently fastened on.
there's no palatable sense of, good lord, we're in TOTAL FUCKING CULTURAL INERTIA AND HAVE BEEN FOR WAY TOO LONG AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!?
it's lazy. it's cowardly. it doesn't present anything new. it encourages complacence of thought. and ultimately, it galvanizes the acceptance of the essential herd mentality it purports to lampoon.
but hey, white people just love being in on the joke, so it's harmless, right?
posted by jomilkman @ 9:08 AM
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addendum to this phenomenon, maybe: misappropriation of nostalgia as sober judgement on value?
e.g., if you liked a bon jovi song in 1986 when you went to a high school dance and did whip-its with your friends, that doesn't make the bon jovi song a good song in 2008 when you're remembering it. i don't know, just thinking out loud.
Dude, I love this link. I think architecture may be the whitest of all professions, being as all of things on this list are the favorite things of most of my friends from grad school. Go figure.
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