It kind of just changes your whole concept of idolatry … I think that now happens with people who are barely famous. You know, someone who has a blog … and they start getting a lot of responses to their work. So they befriend these people and they become their online friends. And then those online friends transfer to be their real friends. So they’re constantly living in this world where they’re a public figure. And I think … they get very confused about what the value of what they’re doing actually is. Because as far as they can tell, everybody they’ve talked to treats them as if they’re some sort of public intellectual.
Chuck Klosterman, The B.S. Report (6/29, Part 2) (via jennabee)(via baxterp)
I completely agree with this, but isn’t Klosterman saying it kind of like Thom Yorke telling Radiohead fans that they’re not special for liking his boring, shitty records? I mean, he’s talking about the only people in the universe that consider him relevant.
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