Link: Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? – The Washington Post

A good read in the Washington Post.  The part that stuck with me is the below.

As an example believe me I LOVE Star Wars.  But the hype over the trailer yesterday because of three lines from Harrison Ford?  The trailer is nice but it’s not Godfather II.   I will now be shunned.  (Oh and half the people that tweeted it spelled the character’s name as “Chewy.”  Noooo.)

More on Star Wars in the next post!

He also wondered whether the hype machine had finally cracked the formula for perpetual motion: Fame begets fawning praise; fawning praise generates big Web traffic; big Web traffic perpetuates fame; rinse and repeat ­forever-ever.

via Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? – The Washington Post.