Sunday, May 27, 2007

Culture Killer?


A few days ago, my shirt was "I read romance novels" a pretty standard guilty pleasure. I feel like every time I go on a vacation people are hiding behind them constantly. But as I was walking out of class, a girl stops me and says, "I love your shirt. I need to buy that." This probably wouldn't have bothered me before, but coincidentally I just finished discussing Clement Greenburg's Avant-garde and Kitsch. It made me wonder, am I killing culture by accepting kitsch? I really hope my t-shirts aren't just another thing people want to buy.