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# The Most Dramatic, and Somehow Best Take on That Polishing Cloth
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/the-most-dramatic-and-somehow-best-take-on-that-polishing-cloth/
- Published: 2021-11-03T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-03T20:30:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[The Apple Polishing Cloth Is Everything Wrong With Society - Victoria Song](https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-polishing-cloth-is-everything-wrong-with-soci-1847965156?ref=birchtree.me)

> But the silly dumb thing that makes people laugh inevitably becomes warped into something it wasn’t meant to be. It gets co-opted by the Elon Musks of the world, corporate dingbats with more hair than brains who somehow hold all the power. There’s nothing I, a lowly writer, can do about that, even though I’ve been complicit this entire time. I just wish we could’ve enjoyed the stupid funny thing a bit longer.

It does seem that as everything becomes a meme that nothing can just be chill, it always has to become *a thing.*