Among Glenn O’Brien’s many incisive aphorisms, his assertion that “parties are work” has always stuck with me. O’Brien claimed to have learned this from Andy Warhol: “When Warhol turned to me at a party and said, ‘This is such hard work!’ it struck a nerve.” I’ve never doubted this was true for O’Brien and Warhol, but what about everyone else? If the elite’s present norms do indeed anticipate those of the masses by a decade or so (as I
Still thinking about this talk they showed us in college in which one of the creators of Farmville is just sooo excited about the gamification of daily life
The classic description of parties as work: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party
Still thinking about this talk they showed us in college in which one of the creators of Farmville is just sooo excited about the gamification of daily life
https://youtu.be/DLwskDkDPUE