[HN Gopher] How coffee became a joke
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       How coffee became a joke
        
       Author : gulced
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-05-05 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | malicka wrote:
       | > Alas, I fear that this Starbucks fiasco is emblematic of a
       | deeper malaise. There's a shortage of seriousness everywhere in
       | society now. [...] So much is image-driven in our influencer
       | culture nowadays, and so little is substance. Sometimes it feels
       | like the whole country is slurping Frappucinos(r) in Barbieland.
       | 
       | There's nothing that bothers me more than this sort of cultural
       | critique about X vague value that doesn't have much meaning in
       | and of itself. They give me an immediate knee-jerk reaction,
       | since they're usually pretty meaningless. Things need to be more
       | "serious?" What?
       | 
       | And since the birth of pop-culture, it's always been a bit
       | shallow, image-driven, and insusbtantial - that's not new to this
       | generation, or even the one before that.
        
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