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Harbingers of cultural end-times

From Psychology Today, a look at what your stuff and your music reveal about you, but our preferences in art and music are often influenced by the masses. Field Guide to the Snob: Why some people look down on those less cultured — of course, others just have lofty tastes. "The Rockist" Micheal Brett on how hipster hatred knows no bounds. If hipsters really are the harbingers of cultural end-times, then what sort of apocalypse have they wrought? A review of The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki (and more and more and more and more and more). A review of Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (and more and more). From Wired, a special section on the power of personal metrics, including an article on tracking every facet of life, from sleep to mood to pain, 24/7/365. More and more and more on Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford. Relentless consumption, spiralling debt, information overload — is modern life making you ill? Could Samuel Smiles's Victorian ethos in Self-Help be applied to modern-day dilemmas? The problem with self-help books: Study shows the negative side to positive self-statements (and more and more).