tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818022341462530878.post2801635505623557381..comments2023-05-30T06:38:34.054-04:00Comments on Rope Springs Eternal: This, Too, has PassedMac K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17785320472632647157noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818022341462530878.post-59661088568032889922008-07-17T20:34:00.000-04:002008-07-17T20:34:00.000-04:00Heh.Not so fast my friend. Much as the trickle-dow...Heh.<BR/><BR/>Not so fast my friend. Much as the trickle-down theory dries up just as it reaches those whose economic situations are most dessicated, high fashion largely evaporates as it descends the taste ladder from -maker to -less. I'm hopeful, like you, that the Madonna-derived-androgyne-gutter- punk-plumber-crack-muffin-top aesthetic has begun its death throes, but it is characteristic of mobs to maintain delusions of their own wisdom overly long.<BR/><BR/>Style (which you, for example, have) always leads and then fades to fashion, and fashion is what pauses en route to The Salvation Army to be the blue-light special at K-Mart. Consider: fashion and fascism share a common etymological root; it takes a pervasive and reliable follower mentality (i.e., a mob) for either one to take hold, and then both are sticky.<BR/><BR/>Add that to the stubborn self-righteousness of the already-clothed and I see muffins on the table for a while yet.Mac K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17785320472632647157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818022341462530878.post-68038562367016913252008-07-16T11:47:00.000-04:002008-07-16T11:47:00.000-04:00Thank God that national crisis has ended! I can no...Thank God that national crisis has ended! I can now go back to not getting sick to my stomach whenever i see a complete stranger's bulging mid-rift, right?Deityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171402123131370261noreply@blogger.com