Some books (and movies fit the bill here too) are terribly awful but they make waves simply because people can't stop talking about them. I would put the Great Gatsby (both the book and the movie) in ...
Popularism makes us all end up with maybe the most chosen but also the most generic sludge. All excitement gone. And this noise now obfuscates or at least makes it much harder to find true treasure in a world full of treasure waiting to be discovered.
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