"If you're not postmodern, you're not paying attention."
I've been unduly pleased with this since coming up with it earlier this month, but evidence from around the Internet suggests that I'm not too far off:
IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD...
SUFFERING IS ENTERTAINMENT IS SUFFERING! I know nostalgia literally means "a pain in the past," but the decision to remedy it by offering two-hour interactive KGB interrogations--with beatings, mind you--might be a bit too literalistic about the bodily metaphor.
EVERYONE USES HYPERBOLE! AmSpecBlog, rapidly becoming my new favorite institutional blog on the right, gets a little bit shameless: McCain's refusal to look for conservative judges like Samuel Alito would be to every conservative in the country "the political equivalent of subjecting us to waterboarding." On the flip side, at least they've realized that waterboarding might not be a good thing? (Of course, the counterpart to this is the much-linked NOW press release declaring the Kennedy endorsement of Obama to be the "ultimate betrayal" of women. Then again, identity politics isn't postmodern, though maybe female hysteria used for political ends is...)
EVEN THE WHISPERED ADVICE OF COMPANIONS IS CENTRALLY SPONSORED! But I fail to share Poulos' abject terror because the art is often absolutely lovely, and the content is bland enough to be toothless. (With the exceptions of the "don't fuck your flatmate" and "don't always use Helvetica" pieces, both of which are actually quite useful as advice.)
"AMERICAN IDOL" STARS BECOME BIDEN DEMOCRATS! More seriously, the mix of mainstream, backwater, and savvy presented in this profile of Clay Aiken is striking--and says a lot about the complete meaninglessness of the term "counterculture." NOTE: My linking to this piece isn't an endorsement of any of its constituent parts ("Idol," Spamalot, or mostly-unchallenging profiles of genre-shifting stars).
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