How to preserve Hollywood high-prole solidarity
When I saw this headline in Hollywood Momentum (‘Tug of War: Working class stories vs. Hollyweird stories’) I thought I was going to read an Adorno-ish analysis about how our culture industry distorts an apparatus of class oppression. So I was disappointed to discover that the piece is really just about how, if you are a Hollywood assistant, it’s important to pretend to be interested in the work lives of your friends who don’t work in Hollywood, even though their jobs are so much less challenging and exciting than yours:
My cubicle neighbor tells me he often finds himself listening to his friend’s war stories and finding they just aren’t as “exciting or terrible as the stories I tell.
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