Commenting on the “flatness” and “drabness” of the modern cultural experience, Dreyfus says: “[W]hen there are no shared examples of greatness that focus public concerns and elicit social commitment, people become spectators of fads and public lives, just for the excitement,” Ms. Hilton is far from being an “example of greatness.” However, as she stumbles through life, I believe she will continue to “focus public concerns and elicit social commitment,” if only by way of counter-example.

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