The Attention-Span Class Divide

Several months ago, during an Oscar campaign far more memorable than the movie it was promoting, the actor Timothée Chalamet offered up an observation: “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this any more.” Recognizing that he might have just offended some ballet or opera lovers, he added, “I just lost 14 cents in viewership.” Chalamet went on to reference billion-dollar-grossing blockbusters,…