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Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism.
W. David Marx, who bridges mimetic desire and cultural production in his book, Status and Culture, argues that the value of cultural goods like music, fashion, and art usually derives not from their intrinsic merits, but the social status they confer. While social media made it easier to discover and access new, ever-more niche subcultures, Marx
... See more! What is the counterpoint to this?
• the most famous, interesting, powerful people all read their own email
• they’re almost universally good at responding to it quickly
• they’re always very, very curious.
• they have very little time. Anything with friction gets done “later”
If you want new skittles (reality), you have to update your assembly line (your personality or beliefs), and source new ingredients (different friends, new job, dump girlfriend,