The Collective Anger Quota

"It works like this: every offending cultural object—movie, TV show, ice-cream flavor, what have you—demands that a certain amount of anger be generated in response to it. If tons of people despise something—like, say, the comedy of Carlos Mencia—the Anger Quota has already been filled, and I don’t have to feel strongly about it one way or another. But if I dislike something that pretty much everyone loves—Some Like It Hot, or OK Computer—then I really have my hating cut out for me."

- Tim Long, giving a name to a common feeling (in this case, writing about Juno.)

Comments

[Patrick M]

I can’t wait to sit Tim Long down with a copy of OK Computer, dim the lights, and melt into that incredible album.