The winds of fashion dictate everything around me.
They call it "culture", but something entirely devoid of any roots could never be called so. It is fueled by mimesis: people copying others who copy others who copy others who ... One day everyone is into X. The next day, those same people point out how X is obviously cringe and have moved on to the clearly superior Y. The day after, the cycle repeats, and no one notices how fickle the whole thing is.
In such an environment, the only sensible thing is to slow down and see what actually remains after the winds of fashion have long gone. When everyone worries about speed and the quantity of experience, then the value of direction and quality of experience increase tremendously.
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2024-06-21