I thought it was interesting. As someone who has an interesting relationship with the 'hipster, holier-than-thou, commercial-art-isn't-real-art' attitude - I can appreciate where it comes from (I too really dislike popular culture), but dislike how it iterates itself - I enjoyed this story. I think the trick is not to take it at face value. The point being made (the point so eloquently and brutally put down by Scattercat) is interesting, but that's not to say we have to agree with it. Indeed I think part of the point of this story was to make an ironic point about how insufferable the protagonists attitude is. It's an odd literary style, and might be just a little too pretension without a counterpoint, but i think it works pretty well here.
I also loved the world building. It was subtle, it came in dribs and drabs, it was interesting. It sounds like a pretty cool future, when you take off the cynical, self-obsessed glasses through which we are forced to look at the world in the story.
It felt like it should belong in a shared world anthology, where the rest of the stories are told in a normal fashion, exploring differed aspects of the world in a generally favourable light - this would be something of a counterpoint. On it's own, it suffers from being a little too presumptuous, but it was still enjoyable.
