Your Brand

[shiels]

you can be more your self by performing yourself than you can be by trying to avoid performing yourself.

This is like the prayer of our age though, consuming an ideal of yourself. And i don’t think you can really escape it

The easiest critique of all ‘he / it / they have become a parody of themselves..’ of course they fucking have we’re all doomed to that!

 

[sus]

The Lure of Divorce

Seven years into my marriage, I hit a breaking point. Since then, I’ve had to decide whether life would be better without my husband in it.

www.thecut.com

I read that yesterday it was brilliant

 

[sus]

Craner have you read that Slate piece on the First Person Confessional Industrial Complex from like fifteen years ago? It centers on Em Gould IIRC and it's interesting thinking about her maturation and development from that time

 

[craner]

I read that yesterday it was brilliant

‘Brilliant’?

 

[wild greens]

Do all the dissensus american correspondents go to therapists or is it merely an illusion of media and tortured columnists?

 

[other_life]

linebaugh has decided i dont have a brand

 

[william_kent]

linebaugh has decided i dont have a brand

You're lucky, he implied I've had a cerebral hemorrhage

well, @linebaugh I have a friend that says tattoos are for pussies and only white hot metal searing on burning flesh is worthy of the title "brand'

and yeah he has the scars to prove it

 

[version]

Do all the dissensus american correspondents go to therapists or is it merely an illusion of media and tortured columnists?

It seems like a status symbol over there, part of the self-improvement racket. You go to the gym, you go to therapy. You let other people know you go to the gym, you go to therapy.

 

[other_life]

he was innocent - not a charge was true, but the world will never know..

 

[william_kent]

a couple of months ago I watched a lot of this person's videos - they've taken 'personal brand' to extreme lengths


Lily Lu - The Hardest Ultra Trail Race Ever Attempted

A former tattooist ( used to be known as "Little Swastika", German nationality ) with full blackout, tattooed eyeballs, breast implants, deliberately amputated fingers, and odd dental work, embarks on ultramarathon immediately after scalpel scarification and performs hook suspension ritual at approx highest altitude while their dominatrix porn star wife provides emotional support

"heartwarming"

hashtag "experiential"

 

[william_kent]

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention

THE BRAND

but let's just leave it there, I DO NOT ENDORSE*

* unless I end up in the California prison system and I'm asked to "put in work" **

** this is a sick joke, no way would I hook up with these psychos

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention

THE BRAND

but let's just leave it there, I DO NOT ENDORSE*

* unless I end up in the California prison system and I'm asked to "put in work" **

** this is a sick joke, no way would I hook up with these psychos

Motto: Sieg Heil, Begorrah!

 

[william_kent]

there was an awkward period where Charles Manson pimped out his girls to the BRAND, but ALDI REMBRANDT RUM is denying me the ability to explicate

if I ever sober up I may write the conspiracy theory to end all

 

[Mr. Tea]

if I ever sober up

I'd advise against, it's a mugs game really.

 

[william_kent]

I'd advise against, it's a mugs game really.

surely you mean a "JOE MUGGS GAME"?

/s

 

[william_kent]

ALDI REMBRANDT RUM does provide a certain "rush"

I feel like my posts are 10x funnier despite all evidence to the contrary

 

[sus]

Do all the dissensus american correspondents go to therapists or is it merely an illusion of media and tortured columnists?

There's an epidemic here but I think the Dissensus Americans are unique for not going to therapy. That's why we hang out on Dissensus instead.

 

[sus]

a couple of months ago I watched a lot of this person's videos - they've taken 'personal brand' to extreme lengths


Lily Lu - The Hardest Ultra Trail Race Ever Attempted

A former tattooist ( used to be known as "Little Swastika", German nationality ) with full blackout, tattooed eyeballs, breast implants, deliberately amputated fingers, and odd dental work, embarks on ultramarathon immediately after scalpel scarification and performs hook suspension ritual at approx highest altitude while their dominatrix porn star wife provides emotional support

"heartwarming"

hashtag "experiential"

Warriors who have nothing to fight for

 

[sus]

‘Brilliant’?

Yes it's a masterpiece of personal branding and self deception performed in public

 

[Mr. Tea]

There's an epidemic here but I think the Dissensus Americans are unique for not going to therapy. That's why we hang out on Dissensus instead.

Dear Gus, could you please write us an essay (doesn't have to be a long one) about the extent to which attending psychotherapy is a status symbol among the contemporary American middle class?