Submitted for Banishment: “In the future, everyone will be x for 15 minutes”

That’s it! That is so it! When a phrase has its own Wikipedia page, it is so time for it to be given a rest. It was originally written, not spoken, in 1968, in Andy Warhol’s exhibition catalog for an exhibit at the Moderna Museet, in Stockholm from February to March of 1968. The catalog read, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

The phrase has become a template for other prophetic utterances. Numerous wags and pundits have reformulated Godwin’s Law using Warhol’s words: “In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes.” My particular variation on the theme is “In the future, everyone will be famous, naked, and Hitler for 15 minutes.”

But it was Instapundit that inspired me to submit this phrase template for banishment when he wrote, “In the future, we will all be Glenn Beck for 15 minutes.”

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