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Article: The New New Thing: Same As It Ever Was.(Next 2008; CULTURE)
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- Newsweek
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- January 7, 2008
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Byline: David Gates
In the arts, the march of progress has reached its destination. Happy now?
It's blasphemous, especially in America, not to believe that every New Year will be more wonderful than the year before -- though in most years, that's setting the bar low. Presidential candidates must always promise a brighter world, hucksters -- other hucksters, I mean -- must always offer the new and improved, the wizards of technology must never kick back and settle for the already perfectly adequate. (You folks who bought Windows Vista -- can I get a witness?) You'd think the arts would be above this vulgar onward-and-upwardism; in fact, most writers, ...
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