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Rushfield Babylon

where it all went wrong
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  • February 2, 2014 3:36 pm

    "I don’t know why everyone thinks the high part and the low part of the brow are the only good parts," he says. "When did the middle get to be the bad brow? It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s so bourgeois!’ Let me put this in perspective: we don’t really like miserable poverty, and we don’t really like gigantic, asshole-ish 1% creephood. I think we’re actually for the middle class. So make sure the middle class actually has some interesting stuff to think about."

    James Schamus on the disappearance of quality middlebrow. A world where there is nothing in between Transformers and Upstream Color gets closer every day.

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