Andrew Reeves
@reevesy
Andrew Reeves
Obsessions: My Virtual Soulmate
Apparently, a great way to make friends is to tell a funny story about something that happened to you -but be sure to exaggerate. Exaggeration fosters closeness. People love to know that you’re more invested in telling them a good story than you are in accurate reporting.
The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
A tribute to the 80s
what’s Blackbird Spyplane about?” one of the craggy-brained replies I reach for is that we’re a newsletter brought to you by, fascinated with, skeptical of, and inextricably in thrall to modern consumer pathologies. You don’t become “the No. 1 source across all media for anti-consumerist dope-jawns recon” without standing on business amid a vortex
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Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.
Rob Henderson • Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols
No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story.