Looking back, some moments distill the zeitgeist and portend the future in a frightening way.
Kanye West is an icon of Stupid Chic. His comments about Hurricane Katrina are aggressively inane and being an early adopter if not a pioneer of the Stupid Chic movement, he would parley his affected idiocy to attain levels of fortune and fame that mortals can only dream of.
One clip captures so much:
1. The rise of hyperpolitics. Your grandfather probably did not foresee the politicization of the weather. Then again he probably did not foresee the politicization of sports and entertainment either.
2. Any negative comments about Republicans in general and George Bush in particular, no matter how ridiculous, will be encouraged and rewarded.
3. Extrapolating from this clip we can see the meteoric rise of Stupid Chic that would usher in Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and the rise of a plethora of Affected Stupidity pop stars such as the Kardashian Industry, of which Kanye would become a cornerstone.
CELEBRATING THE RISE OF DELIBERATE STUPIDITY
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