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David Perlmutter's avatar

If you need me, I'll be analyzing American popular culture from way before COVID, when it was still a semi-unified thing...

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Sam Colt's avatar

It's been fragmented since the colonial days. Maybe the 50s was the closest to a homogenous culture?

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Barbs Honeycutt's avatar

It's textbook distraction. The Romans have done it (not sure about tiktak street interviews but surely there's a conspiracy about it) quite successfully in the past.

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Jonah Ogilwy's avatar

I refuse to read this because of the clickbait title. You should be better than a facebook ad. Put the topic of your essay in your title.

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Sam Colt's avatar

My titles have been making fun of clickbait title format for the entirety of my newsletter

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Jonah Ogilwy's avatar

OK, maybe I didn’t get the joke

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Sam Colt's avatar

All good, friend! :)

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