[MD] Is Paris Hilton the end of culture?

[Khaled Alkotob]

[David M]
> Hi Khaled/Arlo
> 
> I wonder about our trash culture, of course it is more popular
> and democratic and available than culture was in the past and
> it is pretty trashy (yet far from entirely). But where else would we 
> expect 
> it to begin
> but at the bottom? Is there hope that once we have finished
> exploring every voyeuristic sexual possibility and every celebrity 
> reality
> show we might get a bit bored and start to take an interest in 
> something
> a littler more challenging?
> 

Well back again to that famous line from lila. NYC seems like it's going
to hell but never seems to get there. Just when  I  
think we have hit the bottom of the abyss, deeper it goes.
There is a lot of truth to your comment. It's like going to a nude beach,
soon the novelty wears off. And if we do expose everybody to everything,
then they have to where to go but up. On the other hand as they say, make
it idiot proof and they will make a better idiot.

Moving up the ladder is the quality thing to do assuming that people
realize that they are sitting in a low quality situation and it's time to
move up.

It depends what the incentive is.
Part of the problem is that it's getting harder and harder to be a
pioneer. Either because it's been done, or compared to other stuff, the
new novelty is not that far ahead from the norm.
The first flight of the wrights brothers was shorter than the wingspan of
a 747. 

I really don't know, just when I think we have hit a new low, someone
gets us lower.

Khaled