1.
Some years ago some sociopath named Andy Warhol
said that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame
and people saw that and said
‘Well, this asshole that paints soup cans is super famous
so he should know’
And people started repeating it as fact
as if there were some irreproachable quality to the
soup can man
but really, everybody wanted to believe it so hard
they tried to make it true.
There are are 7 billion people in the world
If everybody got 15 minute of fame
just with the people who are alive today
it would take
199,771.7 years
2.
So maybe ’15 minutes of fame’
is a metaphor
So how does that metaphor function?
It says that you will eventually
reap some reward
for your aspirational toils
at some point
over the course of 200,000 years
It’s a mollifying metaphor
meant to pacify discontent
at the fuckery in the world
3.
How to comport oneself in a celebrity fashion:
buy the right things
look the right way
don’t say anything controversial unless it serves a particular PR aim
don’t indulge a radical politic
maintain an aura of perfection, regardless of what a vile beast you are.
4.
the promise of fame
self regulates the public
and we all want it so bad
and we’re almost there
we’re so close to our fates
so close
So long as all our content
strives for a banality
which challenges nothing
and says even less
we may just get there one day
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