{"id":1589,"date":"2009-10-24T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2009-10-24T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T15:42:42","slug":"new-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/new-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"New cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/10\/alt-text-cult\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lore Sjoberg<\/a> has a <del>new<\/del> religion to offer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are many strange religions in this mixed-up, modern world &mdash; Discordianism, Pastafarianism, the Church of the Subgenius &mdash; but one of strangest and most popular is the Cult of the New.<\/p>\n<p>People will pay more than twice as much to see a first-run movie compared to seeing it in a second-run theater or renting it and watching it at home. They\u2019ll pay $50 for a videogame that will clearly be a $20 \u201cgreatest hits\u201d game before too long.<\/p>\n<p>They buy novels in hardback, comic books in their original run rather than waiting for the anthology. And then there are all those people paying $600 for video cards that, six months from now, will cost less than the shiny, full-bleed folding pamphlets currently being used to advertise the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the best way to instantly raise your standard of living is to live in the past. If you subsist entirely on two-year-old entertainment, and the corresponding two-year-old technology used to power it, you\u2019re cutting your fun budget in half, freeing up that money for more exciting expenditures like parking meters and postage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lore Sjoberg has a new religion to offer: There are many strange religions in this mixed-up, modern world &mdash; Discordianism, Pastafarianism, the Church of the Subgenius &mdash; but one of strangest and most popular is the Cult of the New. People will pay more than twice as much to see a first-run movie compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,11],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-religion","tag-consumerism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}