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A recurring thought that I have: People are often not too superficial, but rather too inattentive of surface detail.

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the overpoweredginger

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huh, that's a really interesting distinction

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Aesthetic resonance or disssonance is often (not always) heavily vertically integrated.

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integrated into what?

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Google some pictures of Jimmy Saville, extremely evil bastard. Think of how Jeff Bezos looks now vs. how he looked when he was just a nerd who wanted to sell books online.

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Savile, one l.*

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People wear their souls on their sleeves and we're too disenchanted to see it.

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ahhhhhh, that kind of vertical integration got it

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I think people are waking up to Bezos tbh, but yeah you've got a point there. There's something to be said for not judging a book by its cover, but at the same time you can learn a lot of things about the story from what's printed on the front

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Except by personal recommendation or discovery, judging a book by its cover is literally the only way I ever buy books.

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the overpoweredginger

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that's the way to do it imo

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Works for wines, whiskies and surprisingly often, people. Although people are a lot more complex and variable, and better at deceptive marketing.