What a magnificent collection of closely observed, social self-contradictions. One of my favorites:
>[In the consumer culture] [y]outh is valued over age. Change over
>tradition. ...
>[T]he people
>who
>craft advertising tend to be extremely hip: the unstructured office is
>an
>invention of Madison Avenue, as is the now omnipresent tradition of
>casual
>dress in the workplace.
How long can one sustain a *tradition* of casual dress in the workplace without the practice being recognized as simply another phony gesture of subversiveness -- indeed, as a restrictive convention?
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