Meme Spotting
Firedoglake on ‘Blogging is the new punk’ . Do keep up, people. This is an old meme … see
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I was never a punk the first time round, though I’m the right age. I thought then that the mass of ‘punks’ were a bunch of over-privileged self-indulgent, middle-class nonconformist conformists and I feel the same now. You may as well call blogging ‘the new Jimmy Choos’ as the new punk.
Fuck that. Blogging is samizdat, not a style statement.