- churning and churning in the widening gyre (the falconer can’t be bothered listening to falcon podcast [#197])
*I like this guy's well-nigh-impenetrable hipster argot. Somehow this flaunting subculture rhetoric often sounds more interesting when it's tinged with despair.
http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2011/06/d-we-need-to-talk-about-blandoscattered.html
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"But, you know, the rats will have their charlie, will they not? I think we’re all in on this. This gross hunger for novelty, and the rate at which we churn through podcasts, and the horrible hangovers. Which is surpassed only by the thumping rate at which podcasts are released. And you’re still expected to have appetite enough to buy some music?
"A friend of mine confided: he can now no longer be bothered pirating. The very thought of it fills him with an unspeakable ennui. It’s so weird, isn’t it? It’s almost as if we don’t know how to operate outside an ‘economy’; without scarcity, how do you build evaluative hierarchies? And why cherish anything? This strange proliferation of simulacra, a veritable free for all... and yet, almost totally unappetizing – while it also tends to make people go on horrible binges, orgy without appetite, after which they become wracked with guilt, and feel the need to buy merchandise and attend live shows to atone for their sins..."
