http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/everything-jonathan-franzen-currently-hates.html
Self-described leftist Jonathan Franzen who was hyped by Oprah Winfrey on her afternoon talk show, like Harper's publisher and trust fund narcissist John MacArthur, hates the Internet. From the article linked above: He hates: - The Internet, which “tempts everyone to be a sophisticate.” (1, 3) - “‘individualized’ Facebook pages” (1, 4) - Snark, which is “cool’s twin sibling.” (1, 4) - Salman Rushdie on Twitter. (1, 4) - n+1, “a politically committed print magazine that I respect,” which nonetheless “denigrates print magazines as terminally ‘male,’ celebrates the Internet as ‘female,’ and somehow neglects to consider the Internet’s accelerating pauperization of freelance writers.” (1, 4) - “Good lefty professors” who “start calling the corporatized Internet ‘revolutionary,’ happily embrace Apple computers, and persist in gushing about their virtues.” (1, 4) - “the Hearst papers in America.” (1, 5) - The U.S., which, along with Vienna, is “another weakened empire telling itself stories of its exceptionalism.” (1, 5) - The “total electronic distraction” that is “the actual substance of our daily lives.” (1, 5) - “Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.” (1, 5) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
