Is the Internet the Ultimate Acceleration of Culture?

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Culture is now more like a very shallow ocean. It's not deep, it's very shallow. But we can access any part of it. And as a consequence, it is creating ti strange static thing. A and that's very strange when you think about it. I mean, i you'd have taken the music of 19 91, and you would have brought it back and played it for someone in 19 71. You just kind of pick random you picked nor vana red, hot chilly peppers tri called testb bring that back,. play that to people in 19 71, they would have said, this isn't music like it would have seemed dissotent and confusing.

Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties.

”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts promoting this book. And because it's a book about the nineties… it feels incredibly uncomfortable to me…. I think young people assume that selling out is only about money: that if you try to do something to make money, that means you're selling out, because the word ‘sell’ is in there. But that's not really how it was. I mean, what you were selling out was this idea of your integrity. And what your integrity was, was somehow not doing anything to make other people like you.”

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