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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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Is There a Mass Marketing of Authenticity?

I think that this aesthetic shift that we went through from the 80s to, I guess, the 2000s where like, yeah, people were paying $150 for jeans that had fucking holes in them. The mass marketing of authenticity, of the aesthetic of authenticity, I would like to read an actual, a real book about that. But then, OK, but then what really frustrates me about this book is that I actually think that he's on to something. He has another borderline interesting section about vacations, how it used to be like you'd go to Paris and you'd gone to the Eiffel Tower,. But now it's sort of like, when you go to Paris,

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