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233: Love What Lasts: An Interview with Josh Gibbs

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Three Categories of Cultural Artifacts

The book argues that there are three categories of all cultural artifacts and this would include clothing, food in addition to books and movies. Middling things appeal to the base interests that we have and we lose interest in them very quickly so they're like transformers movies and drag like an ancient in fashion or Friday tacos and whatever KFCs putting out this week. This is most popular music I mean this is most like any number one hit this week is gonna be nowhere next weeklike the songs that fill a dancefloor in June are gonna clear a dance floor in August.

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