Re:Already been done. (Score 0)

All ages have false idols and images. I think our Gauloises smoking friends across the pond mean that we Americans recognize our false idols and images as unreality and we just dont care for the difference between authentic and simulated experiences. Our simulation of consumer freedom is paramount: to substitute one repertoire of received styles for another. Cool was the name used to replace the void of vacated freedom and authenticity conquered an age ago. Just ask Thomas Frank and his friends at the Baffler.