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Moderator
What I'm trying to convey is that we are an opticratic society—and, moreover, almost every human society is, but it's especially pronounced in large, urban, globalized societies. In an ancestral community, you get to know people as individuals over years and decades; your parents knew each other, you grew up together, etc.
In contemporary society, we are constantly sizing people up—in job interviews, in online dating, in deciding who is "your tribe" & you wanna be friends with vs "not your tribe." What's the old expression? "Follow your vibe, find your tribe." Yeah, a "vibe" is a set of aesthetic signifiers that correlate with people who are a certain way. In other words, a stereotype.
In contemporary society, we are constantly sizing people up—in job interviews, in online dating, in deciding who is "your tribe" & you wanna be friends with vs "not your tribe." What's the old expression? "Follow your vibe, find your tribe." Yeah, a "vibe" is a set of aesthetic signifiers that correlate with people who are a certain way. In other words, a stereotype.