March 14, 2010
pop culture number
I was thinking the other night about common culture and the people we know who overlap. I mean this in the most superficial sense; not people we know who are close to us, or mean something tangible in our lives. Rather, the constant bombardment of celebrity figures — sports, television, movies, music — and the infinite swirl of sub-sections. My question was, how many people do we know this way? What is the number? The people who when I say Beyoncé, you know what I’m talking about? There must be thousands.
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This is interesting, because I often find myself thinking of the people out there we don’t know. I will occasionally overhear a conversation or see a group of people who appear to be fully engaged with one another, and I think of the potential influence of these people on my life, and the countless alternate experiences that knowing a different group of people might present. Then I start moving my fingers in funny ways and have to jump up and do something to keep me from going nuts over the whole thing.