My sample answers: 1. Sports. Genuinely do not care. I sometimes exploit it by going to otherwise busy places during games. Also really annoyed by inconveniences caused by sports, like traffic. 2. Politics. Much as I’d like to not care, I do. So I follow it. Despite stress.
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1. class signaling 2. personal status signaling
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Are you ever in environments where Fussellian traditional class is still a strong force though? I’m not 90% of the time (beyond basic dress-for-starbucks-normcore) but 10% of time I end up in places where not signaling class causes big problems. So I conform.
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1: The norm in academia where you're supposed to really believe in the thing & also desperately need tenure-track job 2: The norm in academia where you're supposed to work hard on shit that is like 10-20 degrees off of what you'd actually like to be working on.
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That 10-20 degree issue is so painful, and that is such a concise & effective way of describing the feeling.
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(1) Cults of personality/group identity. Freedom to say the thing. (2) Personal reputation. If I don't care, people who do get to decide what it is, and they tend to be the ones I pissed off in (1)
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1. Job titles 2. Measuring myself against others
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1. Sports. 2. Precision. I come across as pedantic when it's not needed.
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1. Celebrity gossip 2. Political gossip/ ‘news’
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1.)god 2.)family
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