Universal admission to the class of “creative” people would best meet Reich’s ideal of a democratic society, but since this goal is clearly unattainable, the next best thing, presumably, is a society composed of “symbolic analysts” and their hangers-on. The latter are themselves consumed with dreams of stardom but are content, in the meantime, to live in the shadow of the stars waiting to be discovered and are symbolically united with their betters in a continuous search for marketable talent that can be compared… only with the rites of courtship.

Christopher Lasch predicting thinkpiece culture (via danup)