Aggregation and Culture

Who is to say that my generation’s index of culture should be yours also? Ignore those who would have you consume works of length and substance and then spend your life in consideration of and conversation on that substance. Emulation of dead modes of expression cannot be the way forward. You will find new ways to carry the flag. Perhaps being angry at famous people and collecting pictures of clothes is your generation’s intellectualism. Perhaps crying on the Internet is your generation’s fortitude. Perhaps aggregation is your generation’s creation. Perhaps the understanding of cats is worth as much as the understanding of ourselves.

J.D. Salinger