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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

“How the 1 Percent Always Wins”: Interview

April 6, 2015 by Scott Timberg

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A timely and engaging new book by the labor historian Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence, contrasts the way Americans responded to the first Gilded Age — with protests, class rhetoric, even violence — to the situation today, where movements like Occupy come and go and populist energy is directed not against capital but against… poor people.

Meanwhile we adore heroic CEOs, scorn sensible regulation that keeps businesses from abusing workers and the environment, and aim to become “free agents” with no ties at all.

I spoke to the author the other day for a Salon Q+A. Here it is.

We talked about Adam Smith, the truth and myth behind the American Dream, the worship of wealth, and our inability to remember a world before full-bore capitalism.2Q==

Filed Under: books, Capitalism, history, Plutocracy

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

Culture Crash, the Book

My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

Culture Crash

Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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