Culture is an accumulation of accidents

| April 21, 2022

The actions that define culture are rarely deliberate. Culture is, in many ways, an accumulation of accidents, small gestures and stumbles that somehow end up sticking together like a giant snowball rolling down a hill. Every successful band has the moment when they almost gave up just before their breakthrough; every artistic movement has its rejections, arguments, and fistfights; every book has a graveyard of characters and scenes that were killed to make way for the story. The end result may look neat — libraries of books ordered alphabetically, artworks organized into linear chronologies — but the process of making culture is anything but. - Matt Locke ‘The Hot List: The Rise and Fall of the Singles Chart’ — Background image via “Alleyway” by justlego1O1 is licensed under CC BY-SA

Quote via Matt Locke’s post The Hot List: The Rise and Fall of the Singles Chart https://collect.readwriterespond.com/the-hot-list-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-singles-chart/

Background image via “Alleyway” by justlego1O1 is licensed under CC BY-SA

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