The impossibility of lingering 20th century cultural narratives necessitates that we expect people to believe that one person can simultaneously be running for president, designing a new clothing line, working on a fire new album and tour, and constantly posting online

The wicked problem of updating these narratives is that we don’t know how to sell cultural products without this same myth of the individual overachiever, despite it being patently absurd and defying laws of physics

If someone would, for example, establish a publication dedicated to telling the detailed truth about pop cultural production, it would end up being the definitive publication of the next decade