A lack of culture is not our problem. The problem is we’ve become too effective at distributing that culture — at the same time, in the same way, and with the same velocity. It all ends up feeling interchangeable, which makes it all marginally irrelevant. As it turns out, my initial question was beyond impossible. There are no interesting twentieth-century Americans. There can’t be, because they all are. (via How Foreigners See America - American Pop Culture - Esquire by Chuck Klosterman
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