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LONDON - THE SILLY LITTLE CHILDREN OF SOCIAL "DISOBEDIENCE"


If your journey home last Friday involved traversing Liverpool Street station, then you were shit outta luck. The station was forced to close for an hour and a half, from 7pm, due to 12,000 smug, self-indulgent idiots giving thousands and thousands of pounds of free advertising to T-Mobile by recreating one of their adverts. What a whimsical generation we are. And oh great, I just did a Facebook events search for "flash mob" and more than 500 results came up. Aren't these things supposed to make an effort to disobey social mores and norms? Well, now they're so rampant everyone who participates is in compliance. I guess it doesn't matter to anyone that some guy at Harper's Magazine invented them years ago to make fun of the need to be in on the next big thing OR that they are no longer shocking to ANYONE (Even my 95-year-old great-great aunt knows what they are) OR that if you go to one, you're gonna be surrounded by people like this….

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JAMIE TAETE