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It meant someone was compromising the values they originally espoused in exchange for something superficial
By 1994, self-flagellation had become a kind of philosophical fashion.
The concept of buying a new phone every other year[*] would have seemed as crazy as installing a new toilet every other Thanksgiving.
Browsing through someone’s album collection was a low-level Rorschach test.
Movie critics disliked The Phantom Menace, but diehards hated it more.
People watch cable news as a form of entertainment, and they don’t want to learn anything that contradicts what they already believe.
Unless cataclysmic events are actively breaking, the purpose of cable news is emotional reassurance.
It was the end of small differences.
