The Furniture Guy is as clear-eyed as usual as he goes around
noticing things. Full essay here. Fun excerpt here:
I try not to assign ponderous importance to trivial things. But most people aren't like that. A vicious narcissism rules the age. People will fight with fists over the primacy of Katy Perry over Lady Gaga. People want to write their condiment preferences into the Constitution. They believe that their love for things, however acquired, places the imprimatur of importance and goodness and intelligence on the objects of their affections. You can get shot for wearing the wrong laundry at a football stadium. People have OPINIONS now, not the lower-case kind.
P.S. Easily-offended Bruce Springsteen fans, mavens, and
groupies should avoid the link.
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