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Re:The Age of Mediocrity: Why Rebecca Black Is Everyone's Fa... by anagnorisis on Thursday March 24, 2011 @03:47PM (#2365594)
Judging between potential problems....I think the most apparent one is the op-ed writer missed a dose of Xanax, or missed a deadline and needed to churn something out.

He's imbuing way too much meaning in this.

40M views..The numeric is extraordinary, but that's it. What % of these views carries the face time of 2minutes? 1minutes of someone's life? How about 10seconds of someone's randomized procrastination or ennui schedule?

Contrast with the % that isn't the 10s Population...and what % are young, pre-adolescent girls (or boys)?

Putting probable numbers on these figures, and a real problem may be revealing itself in the writer's thinking while trying to harangue society:

an emotional aversion and resistance to the progressive openness of communication.

Fwiw, i watched her entire video...but i just liked the beat?

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