A Default Smart Opinion is an opinion that’s generally considered to be inarguable because it’s repeated ad nauseam by seemingly intelligent individuals.
Hating Crash has become what I like to call a Default Smart Opinion. Here he is on the trendy, near-universal dislike of Crash among all the people I have ever followed on Twitter: While it would be easy to differentiate each side of a rivalry in a simplistic way - cool versus not cool - Hyden is self-consciously suspicious of easy answers. Hyden admits that he likes the work of the Beatles as much as he likes the work of the Rolling Stones, but that he defines himself as a Stones person rather than a Beatles person because a Stones person is more in line with his understanding of his own personality. The meaning of life isn’t on offer here, but Hyden gets into a lot of questions about identity and the ways that we define ourselves by defining against something, or someone, else.
Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me (affiliate link: Book Depository), from Grantland alum and UpRoxx writer Steven Hyden, reminded me of what was so special about Grantland’s glory days.Īnd yes, okay, the subtitle is a little grandiose. Is it wrong that I still miss Grantland, though? They had an incredible stable of writers with a particular gift for writing about important things through the lens of seemingly unimportant things. Okay, I know we have The Ringer now, and The Ringer has brought us Actual National Treasure Sam Donsky.
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