The clues area actually all there for you, the enthusiast, to find. Go to the place, meet the people, live there. The Gatekeeper is the reminder that culture requires labor and that access is not a right, it must be earned.

Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires

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Girard's theory posited that human desire is not autonomous or self-driven but rather imitative. People desire things because others desire or possess them, not because of the inherent qualities of the object itself. In this copypasta, the speaker implicitly accuses the other person of wanting the seafood pasta simply because they saw the speaker... See more

These are two very different modes of cultural interaction. Charli’s approach invites participation: the memes exist for remixing, the portrayed scene and its participants exist to be followed and engaged with on social media—the culture of Brat is open and participatory, giving anyone a ticket to join the global digital party. Kendrick, on the... See more

quote by Creative Director Phil Chang, “Culture is what emerges as a product of the friction between people and ideas. Friction [...] is what makes culture exciting to begin with.”

The Gatekeeper is important because they provide the friction. The Gatekeeper is not truly exclusionary, rather they introduce labor to access the culture, they introduce... See more