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  1. Chuck Klosterman (yes, him again) has an interesting article in IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas about the phenomenon of Johnny Carson, and how after his death everyone said “there will never be another Johnny Carson.”

    Here’s the gist of it:

    I think there could be another person like Johnny Carson, or at least another person who possesses his collection of qualities. What there will never be again be is a thing that’s like “Johnny Carson.” And the reason I put Carson’s name in quotes is because the idea of “Johnny Carson” is much different than who he actually was as a person. What this means that hat another Johnny Carson could exist, but no one would care (or at least not as much).

    He goes on to discuss the loss of shared experience among our society.

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