January 3, 2009
No Guilty Pleasures For 2009 — Just Pleasures
Why the hell do some pleasures have to be guilty? And where did that idea come from anyway?
As I see it, there are two parts to a guilty pleasure: The guilt that’s felt for enjoying something and an embarrassment to admit it. That’s because structurally, a guilty pleasure is something your peers think is crap.
People who determine what’s crap are The Elites, defined as those who think they’re smarter and more sophisticated than everyone else, even if they’re not. You’ll find most Elites in the media, academia, HuffPo or in Whole Foods.

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