An interesting test of what kind of writer you are is whether you naturally gravitate to low culture or high culture references/examples when both are available and you know about both
Going low (like I do) reveals subversive tendencies/values
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How much of this is really personal rather than a product of surrounding environment? I find myself thinking in terms of low cultural references more often than I write about them since I’ve been so extensively conditioned to produce academic writing.
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A lot. Takes a lot of words to be your own conditioning environment. You don't reach escape velocity from training contexts till like 300,000 words

