Among the Disrupted

Re:Among the Disrupted by dctoedt on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @08:11PM (#8854470)

FTA: The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry.

That's just what one would have expected from Leon Wieseltier. His columns at The New Republic often likewise came across as self-important, contemptuous, and entitled. The jury's still out about the recent management "changes" at TNR, but more than a few readers won't be sorry to see L.W. gone from there. (Except now he's at The Atlantic.)

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Re:Among the Disrupted by ser_tyrion on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:40PM (#8854742)

That sentence does seem out of place compared to the rest of the essay. If anything the thugs destroyed the thugs. His biggest contention is that "technologism" is a cultural infatuation with newness, and both digital music stores and record stores both used "newness" when advertising. And I guess that is what makes them "thugs" for reinforcing that view, as well as "nothing innovative about pandering for the sake of a profit".

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