Philipp Rimmler

art is the curing of callousness

If someone regularly brags about their wealth, income, or success, just assume the reality is about 50% of what they say. People who are crushing it in life rarely feel the need to tell you they are crushing it.

What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.

“A trademark is a picture. It is a symbol a sign an emblem an escutcheon...an image. There are good symbols... like the cross. There are others... like the swastika. Their meaning are taken from reality. Symbols are a duality. They take on meaning from causes... good or bad. And they give meaning to causes... good or bad. The flag is a symbol of a ... See more

Most of us don’t consider this when we’re in our “flow state” of scrolling. We’re too distracted by dopamine delivery, too captivated by the psychosomatic hypnosis of holding phone in hand. We consume mechanical reproduction of mechanical reproduction, eventually losing touch of what Benjamin labels “aura”—the sublime experience of reality that rem... See more