Your Brand

craner

craner

Beast of Burden
luka said:
you can be more your self by performing yourself than you can be by trying to avoid performing yourself.
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This almost Wildean.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

Etc.
 
mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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sus said:
People want too much, they want everything, but they can't have everything and they don't know what they want more, because they don't have good models for what to choose, so they can't choose, because the culture doesn't provide them these models
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These are the trials of LATE-STAGE LIBERALISM.
 
mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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sus said:
You know me, but yes

It's definitely an urban coastal liberal thing though. In the entirety of rural Wisconsin there's one bored housewife with an alcoholic husband who secretly takes SSRIs and when it comes up everyone's curious and asks her questions like, "Why are you taking this?"
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These are the only pills rural America needs:

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Are you ready to be white-pilled?
 
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version

Well-known member
sus said:
What is your brand how do you cultivate it (do you cultivate it?) Are you a guy who only drinks Scotch are you a guy who collects Japanese vinyl what is your aesthetic-ideological niche in the cultural matrix and how do you feel about it?
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It's a serious commitment to intentionally cultivate a brand and stick to it. I imagine a lot of people can't be bothered and just slip into being themselves eventually.
 
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germaphobian

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I think there's a general decay of human spirit, will and capability when it comes to these things. I mean, look at Fernando Pessoa- even his heteronyms had heteronyms.
 
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version

Well-known member
craner said:
www.thecut.com

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 www.thecut.com
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This person feels like a caricature, a Noah Baumbach character made flesh.

"My husband would have to forgive me for cheating and wasting our money. I would have to forgive him for treading on my literary territory..."

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version

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One of the striking things about that piece is how she filters her marriage through all those middlebrow autofiction books. It's particularly striking having recently started the Lasch book where he talks about shoddy confessional writing drenched in 'pseudo-insight' into one's own condition slipping into unintentional parody.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
ghost said:
(If this all sounds implausible and possibly comic—someone I met at a party a year or two back was later revealed to be a race faker—this person had spent seven years pretending to be half japanese, which raised interesting ontological questions about their concurrent claim to be nonbinary.)
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reminds me of a thing in germany where germans pretend to be jews and built their entire persona (and career!) around that identity. only recently a well known journalist by the name of fabian wolff was revealed as a fake jew.

this one was another big story in the media https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...y-graduate-and-writer-sophie-hingst-1.3967259
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
yyaldrin said:
reminds me of a thing in germany where germans pretend to be jews and built their entire persona (and career!) around that identity. only recently a well known journalist by the name of fabian wolff was revealed as a fake jew.
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There was a woman (Belgian, I think) who wrote a 'memoir' about being a Jewish girl in the camps, escaping from the Nazis and tramping halfway across Europe to safety. Turned out to be a total load of bollocks, including her alleged Jewishness.
 
ghost

ghost

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i think the really chilling thing about the divorce piece is the sense I get that she actually just wants to make sure that her husband will stay with her if she puts him through as much misery as possible. like it's a test or something, where inflicting pain on the poor chap is the point, and he passes through total self-abnegation
 
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version

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I'd never heard of her. Apparently she has an audience of hate readers who've been following her for years and this is her brand. She's a professional "oversharer" who blows all her money then writes self-pitying articles about how her lifestyle doesn't match her expectations.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
version said:
I'd never heard of her. Apparently she has an audience of hate readers who've been following her for years and this is her brand. She's a professional "oversharer" who blows all her money then writes self-pitying articles about how her lifestyle doesn't match her expectations.
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Oh god, I bet she has an army of simps who then send her cash through a GoFundMe, doesn't she...
 
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version

Well-known member
Mr. Tea said:
Oh god, I bet she has an army of simps who then send her cash through a GoFundMe, doesn't she...
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"I sent out a newsletter to my hundreds of subscribers declaring that I was getting a divorce and asking them to Venmo me money for the custody battle I foresaw."
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
version said:
"I sent out a newsletter to my hundreds of subscribers declaring that I was getting a divorce and asking them to Venmo me money for the custody battle I foresaw."
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Yes, I saw that bit - I was just wondering if she had any takers (or rather, givers).
 
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