> Twenty years ago, all the conformists in my age cohort were obsessed with the Harry Potter books …startlingly puerile and unoriginal mass-marketed wish-fulfillment fantasies.
> Today, those same conformists in my age cohort are more likely to condemn the Harry Potter series … Naturally, then, there was nothing for me to do but finally read the series!
I think this type of smug contrarianism is more in want of a shorthand label than the age-old trope of bureaucracy-abuse. The type of person that feels the need to spend 1/3 of an opinion piece painstakingly justifying the use of a pop culture reference that, yes, he knows, would be outrageously juvenile and plebeian for a man of his station, and must be accompanied by a warning so the sheer dissonance does not distract from his very important point.
Surely a man of his “brilliance and creativity” would realize that “Blankface” will only conjure the image of an emoji in the minds of conformist plebs :|
> Today, those same conformists in my age cohort are more likely to condemn the Harry Potter series … Naturally, then, there was nothing for me to do but finally read the series!
I think this type of smug contrarianism is more in want of a shorthand label than the age-old trope of bureaucracy-abuse. The type of person that feels the need to spend 1/3 of an opinion piece painstakingly justifying the use of a pop culture reference that, yes, he knows, would be outrageously juvenile and plebeian for a man of his station, and must be accompanied by a warning so the sheer dissonance does not distract from his very important point.
Surely a man of his “brilliance and creativity” would realize that “Blankface” will only conjure the image of an emoji in the minds of conformist plebs :|