present: kitsch = trendy
present: kitsch = trendy
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"People who enjoy kitsch (cultural products intended to be high quality, but seriously flawed in conception or taste) in a naive, relatively straightforward way may be out of it, but they are still to be sympathized with as fellow human beings who at least have not lost the capacity to feel. People who pretend to enjoy kitsch as part of some lame "anti-hip" put-on are, on the other hand, to be pitied and even despised: Their apparent hipness is nothing but the despair and rage of the emotionally disabled masquerading as coolness; this is cheese, not camp."
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