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...slumping, sloth-like pole dancer seems eerily prophetic. While above-the-waist framing and strobe lighting keep Britney from looking too haggard, it’s undeniable that the she’s looked better. Historically, a certain amount of Britney’s appeal rested on the sheer hilarity of her continued existence, but this video is proof of how far she’s fallen. Wallowing in mediocrity, “Gimme More” isn’t even bad enough to be good. Britney clearly couldn’t care less about this state of affairs...
When Douglas Coupland popularized the phrase “Generation X” in his 1991 debut novel of the same name, he cast himself as the passive observer. In stepping back from time and cultural context, he held all the naivety, hypocrisy, and sheer idiocy of North America’s consumer-driven society in our collective face for us to laugh at. And laugh we did, all the way up until the bizarre, self-referential ending to 2006’s quirky “JPod.” But something has been lost in his latest work...
...that they represent would essentially be rejecting American society and all it represents. The hyper-ambitious culture that America has adopted has both good and bad aspects to it. On the positive side, to a certain extent, you have groups like us Harvard students, who (supposedly) by sheer force of will, determination, sweat, and drive, have worked our way into this grand institution. But at the other end, you have the increasingly burdensome and unyielding pressure to perform. With the difference between success and a failure—in sports at least—boiling down to mere milliseconds...
...Indeed, if any popular figure (fictional or not) has the power to lend a new level of legitimacy to homosexuality in mainstream culture, it is Dumbledore. The sheer amount of thought and discussion that his sexuality is causing, and will continue to cause, is bringing us closer towards understanding homosexuality as a visible part of the human experience, rather than murky taboo or narrow stereotype...
...nation must place proportionate weight on both the majority views that have comprised its historical past and the current changes that are catalyzing its future. The one thing that must not happen among immigrant generations is for pre-existing American values to assert superiority over foreign ones by sheer virtue of their predominance. Which values persist and which ones fade away should be recognized and questioned on their own grounds, not left to the realm of the inarticulate psychological subconscious...