J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
Alexander Fury | AnOther
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W. David Marx argues in his book “Status and Culture.” We want what other people have in order to fit in, but eventually abandon those same things once we see them as too accessible to the masses.
New York Times • rw-embedded-content[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/style/gen-z-trend-cycle.html]
too many trends, not enought taste
Everything is accessible to everyone, which means that people’s desire to reel it in and “gatekeep” is a natural response. At least according to W. David Marx
David Bowie: to be an artist is to be "dysfunctional" (Mar. 31, 1998) | Charlie Rose
youtube.comDavid Bowie says that the act of creating - art or music - isn’t something enjoyable. It’s painful. Dysfunctional. Even as someone who isn’t an “artist”, the best things I’ve ever done sort of sucked while doing them.
Jargon makes the mind go gray
In the West, modern museums evolved from so-called Cabinets of Curiosities, which typically displayed wondrous artifacts of the natural world—shells, fossils, plants and organisms—taken from their context and mounted inside. The natural world is sampled and split apart, studied and displayed.
At Japanese Museums, Art and Nature Merge - WSJ
Being sold to can be socially awkward, for sure, but when it comes to corrosive self-doubt, being the seller is a thousand times worse. The constant curation of a salable self demanded by the new economy can be a special hellspring of anxiety.