thecolor12

he begins: The twin realities are this: on September 11th, 2001, every single member of my generation plugged in a computer and started staring at a screen and no one has turned it off or looked away since.   What followed is eight years of the worst American politics since Richard Nixon and a decade where absolutely nothing new happened.  No new genres, no new styles, no new forms, ideas, anything.  There were new versions of things that had already happened.  There are a thousand depressing and brain-damaging reasons why everything is different and everything is exactly the same but when Lewis Lapham said that in the advent of the Internet that “history would be flatlined” he was right.  The Beatles have new albums out, Nabokov’s final novel was published, Nirvana just released a live DVD, and the other day I got a big compliment on a sweater I bought in 1996.