I like this article I have never read any Malcolm Gladwell, but I can always tell exactly what level of geek culture someone is aspiring to by asking them about him; the layers of counter-signaling opinions about him are endlesshttps://www.newstatesman.com/2020/01/how-sell-good-ideas …
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The layers are -this guy's smart! -this guy's wrong -this guy's interesting -this guy's a pseudo-intellectual -this guy's a much-needed widely accessible intellectual -this guy fudges data and destroys intellectualism -well I don't believe in data, so there -how dare you
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this can be read either as a conversation or as ascending layers of signalled prestige/nuance, with the last two endlessly recycling
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