What’s to blame for the feeling that we live in a time of “cultural stasis”?
Goldberg is here to tell you that culture is no good now. She quotes the literary critic Christian Lorentzen: “Hollywood movies are boring. Television is boring. Pop music is boring. The art world is boring. Broadway is boring. Books from big publishing are boring.” Goldberg can “think of no recent novel or film that provoked passionate debate.” Arguments about art “have grown stale and repetitive.
At one point, Goldberg presents this as evidence of her thesis: “when I go to coffee shops where young people are hanging out, the music is often either the same music I listened to when I was young, or music that sounds just like it.” This is like a parody of leaden cultural criticism. What’s to blame for our “cultural stasis?” Why isn’t there “more interesting indie stuff bubbling up?” Let’s see what Goldberg has to say.
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant ChangeI have no idea if this book itself is actually richer than she makes it out to be. “Marx posits cultural evolution as a sort of perpetual motion machine driven by people’s desire to ascend the social hierarchy,” Goldberg writes. The idea that there’s social cachet in embracing the new, different, and experimental doesn’t seem like a very novel thesis to me.
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