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The closer you get to leisure class the more ambitions barbellize: trivial, like seeking out the best chips, or save-the-world. Nothing in between. Does not bode well for postscarcity utopian dreams. They will be unstable.
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It's a diversion from original topic...but celebrities often succeed by blurring lines between pretending to be popular and achieving it. Self-absorption is a necessary trait, and again, it may not be malevolent, just...narcissism.
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yup... a metaphor swirling in my head is that there's a sort of 'personality gravity', and it also acts extra hard on certain kind of people. what's nuanced is distinguishing geek-cool from sociopath-narcissism-zombie-capitalist cool. Most ppl dont care anyway
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miles davis and jimi hendrix were self-absorbed in a different way from, say... uh, everyone else. lol. i'm trying to figure out the difference, and trying to figure out if it matters. any thoughts/suggestions? my characters are arguing and idk whose side i'm on
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Yes! Thing is I also need to figure out where I stand (that's why I'm writing this, I suppose). Re: clueless kids getting into a scene thinking they're grasping at some truth. Think I'm leaning towards a "we're all LARPing one way or another" + "define your own itch & scratch it"
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