Thinking About Information
Relax, I'm a professional information scientist. Tell me about your America.
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#40
“Because there are people out there who buy things, people like you and me. Then something happened, something terrible. And the way that they saw themselves is gone. And nobody understands that. But you do. And that’s very valuable.”
- Don DraperIt’s been a few days, now. But nobody is really interested in sitting with things for a few days and thinking. What with the page impressions and search traffic and such.
I’m reposting this because I’m not particularly interested in reading another post or article about whether Don Draper is being Draper-y enough, or if you can stand one more minute of Betty, or if Peggy is being realistic, or if Joey’s haircut is appropriate, or “Ha ha, that Roger, I love those zingers!”
The show isn’t about Don Draper, or drinking, or Advertising, or fetishizing furniture and dresses. The show is about America.
And the scene above, with Don sitting hat in hand, literally, the sunlight illuminating his face like a prayer card, was the climax. We are rolling steadily downhill now with the dénouement sloshing all around us. For however many more episodes and seasons it goes, we are in the dénouement. Just like America.
Give me some insight, blogs! Not just a checklist of things you’re dissappointed about not getting. Your entitlement about a show about how your feelings of entitlement have irretrievably ruined us is deliciously, post-modernly ironic.
But it is insufferable and sad and has to change. Do you see how these are all the same thing? Do you see?
