On buying replica CCCP soccer jerseys at an Urban Outfitters in Georgetown, Will Wilkinson has this to say:

The kids who buy this stuff in a spirit of dissent are oblivious to their role in punctuating the utter destruction of the collectivist order. Like severed heads impaled on posts, these kids are walking warnings for anyone who would dare challenge the market order:

Resistance is futile. You will be commodified. Attack us with ideology and we will sell it as nostalgia [emphasis in the original]

I haven’t yet figured out what he means, but it sure sounds cool — especially in italics. Of course, I’m incredibly drunk right now, so that may have something to do with it (and by “it” I mean both my admiration and my confusion) _____ bless us all, everyone! …

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