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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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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People wear their souls on their sleeves and we're too disenchanted to see 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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Works for wines, whiskies and surprisingly often, people.
Although people are a lot more complex and variable, and better at deceptive marketing.