There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it’s still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they’re worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they’re missing. This is what they’re afraid of, and this is how they deduce societal truth. And that’s the same fear that made me hate a totally friendly person from 1985 to 1986: It somehow made sense to hate him. This is also why it seems weird not to laugh at a woman on reality TV who likes the Olive Garden. It somehow
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