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Are you a “Best of..” or “Worst of..” person when you browse YouTube?
Do you watch content that amplifies greatness? Content which demonstrates the incredible resilience, talents, growth, and potential of humans? Content which inspires you to be the best version of yourself?
Or do prefer content which shows people at their lowest points? Content
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This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.
This choice tells you about their own
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Dean Kissick • The Downward Spiral: Persona (Part I)
(It’s arguable that we could understand the institution of celebrity itself as similarly suspicious: despite the prevailing liberalism of Hollywood, the values of celebrity—visibility, performance, aspiration, extreme physical beauty—promote an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way.)