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It’s pretty funny when you see how, being comfortable with being disliked, actually makes you even more likeable. It’s one of the many ways in which life can be really unfair.
We are living through a pandemic of selfing — rampant self-celebration that mistakes applause for connection, likes for love. Social media companies are capitalizing on our native need for affirmation, exploiting our compromised immunity to manipulation at every turn: algorithms prioritizing selfies over sunflowers, algorithms amplifying the word I... See more
Maria Popova • unselfing.social
we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for m... See more
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We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait
Joan Didion • On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
face. Don’t you want people to like you?’ We have spent our entire lives wanting people to like us when we don’t like ourselves. Fear of not being liked has consumed us.