Jeff Holmes: uncertainty

Transcript context

…Yes, he’s the best, but it’s going to be older by its nature. It doesn’t mean modernity is collapsing. If someone did something amazing two years ago, say in gaming, it just won’t be called GOAT yet. You’ll even wonder, maybe it’ll be surpassed next year, just like, say, the Beatles surpassed the Rolling Stones. Things that qualify for GOAT — they’re not going to be that new, but we’re generating GOAT-like outputs all the time. We just don’t know yet which are the most wonderful in their areas. All right, let’s switch gears and go to a version of GOAT. These are your pop culture picks from 2013. You do a year-end list on Marginal Revolution. I’ve gone back to 2013, and here are your picks. Favorite music — you say these are favorites from a radically incomplete sampling, not a best-of list, which I don’t know that you usually put that qualification on there, but you did this time. Let’s run through them. Kanye West, Yeezus — his best album by quite a bit. It’s a very, very good album. I’m no longer sure it’s his best, but it’s held up very well. Kanye himself is a more problematic matter, but people still listen to it, and they should.…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.