Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
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The Problem With Saturnight Live Is They're Not Insanivized to Do That Kind of Deep Thinking
The problem with doing satire through the vehicle of show like saturit live is they're not insanivized to do that kind of deep thinking. Tinafe is infinitely more popular, a more accomplished, more whatever, than sara pellam will ever be. And so she's using sara pelam to further her own ends. That's backwards. So long as satire is done by a a television show which has such a lofty position in the cultural hierarchy, it's always going to be the case that that is go.
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