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People are more possessive of their defects than they are of any other identity they have
Being a teapot of a certain kind and color is boring, they all come out more or less the same
But to be a broken teapot glued back together is exciting, you have unique crack patterns
Being a teapot of a certain kind and color is boring, they all come out more or less the same
But to be a broken teapot glued back together is exciting, you have unique crack patterns
The Japanese even turned that into an art form, Kintsugi
Wonder if the western obsession with categorizing the minute details of one& #39;s personal flaws and disorders is similarly an aesthetic revolt against standardization, fungibility and human supply flooding inherent to our age
Wonder if the western obsession with categorizing the minute details of one& #39;s personal flaws and disorders is similarly an aesthetic revolt against standardization, fungibility and human supply flooding inherent to our age
Affirmative identity no longer cuts it anymore amid the flood of human supply from across the globe with maximum international mobility
Oh you& #39;re white/black/latinx/asian/albanian/etc? Capital has already thoroughly parsed you, slammed you into a market segment drawer
Oh you& #39;re white/black/latinx/asian/albanian/etc? Capital has already thoroughly parsed you, slammed you into a market segment drawer
But, as always, capital will recalibrate and adapt soon enough. Expect billboards with grayscale pictures of a black woman or someone with a prosthetic limb looking defiantly at the camera but instead of saying "I am black." or whatever it& #39;ll say "I have ADHD/autism/BPD/etc"
Once such flaws and disorders have been rendered thoroughly passé as markers of personal uniqueness due to being embraced and subsumed by capital, I wonder what new thing people will come to identify with their whole being and become rabidly defensive and possessive of
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It& #39;s all so tiresome https://twitter.com/netscape_negro/status/1289699755791015945?s=19">https://twitter.com/netscape_...
