Pop-music

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Title text: I think 'anomie' more or less rhymes with 'shake them cheeks.'

Votey

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I have an idea for a song

It features a young man and woman who feel

In which I portray my cultural interest group as put-upon and misunderstood

Shunned by the broader community this feeling drives them into each other's

By society.

Arms.

Ironically, they engage in an entirely conventional act of courtship, sexual relations, and ultimately longterm monogamy.

That sounds pretty typical for pop music.

Yeah, but in my version, they become aware of their own hypocrisy.

Realizing their love affair is so banal that it undoes all the little defiances that made their initial coupling romantic, they fall into a deep state

They discover that the path of cultural rejection is simply one more means of uncovering our basic biological

Conformity

Of ennui.

One of them chooses to make peace with existence as an unexceptional and short-lived mammal, while the other falls into a self-deluding form of spiritual asceticism, whose demands he is incapable of living out.

Their orthogonal strivings for meaning pull apart the knot of human connection that was the one happy thing in either person's life.

I'm not sure it has mainstream potential.

It's called shake that ass, girrrl"

wow.

Okay, that's better

By the end the shaking is an uncontrolled psychosomatic response to a needlessly wasted lifetime.

Now see, you're losing me again.

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all is dust

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