But if we envision a life of perpetually staying up-to-date with the styles, the trends, the sounds, the smells, the looks—let’s not even say “the ideas,” since ideas have come to feel as onerous and beside the point as file cabinets or Rolodexes, when compared to memes or screenshots or tweets—we are committing to a life that is cluttered but also disposable, a life in which it becomes harder and harder to distinguish between passions and trivia.
