How living offline became the new status symbol | Gaby Hinsliff
It was a death as intensely private as the mourning was public. David Bowie was cremated this week in New York without fuss or fanfare, following an illness he managed to conceal from the world. Not for him the gawping graveside circus, the paparazzi stalking famous mourners. He turned his back on all of that years ago, by choosing to make so little of his recent life - apart from his music - available for public consumption.
And perhaps that's the only really radical thing left to do, in an era saturated with way too much information - to just stop talking. Run away from the attention everyone else seems to be compulsively seeking; disappear, disengage. There is no status symbol so powerful now as not having a status - or not, at least, in the "look at me" Facebook sense - at all.
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