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Everything that we do in life is a form of marketing and PR. The very way we present ourselves to the world, our body language, how we dress, make up, color and

Everything that we do in life is a form of marketing and PR. The very way we present ourselves to the world, our body language, how we dress, make up, color and style our hair, stuff that we talk about, it's all an attempt to sell ourselves as better and smarter and sexier than the competition, and we all do it all the time. And for all of us at least part of it is really just plain fake. If you'd apply the same rules used for commercial products on all those happy couples, perfect housewives, cool bros having crazy adventures that you can see all over Facebook, Instagram, etc. they'd all be charged for false advertising. So don't be that hard on people trying to sell you skateboards...

KozmoNau7 8y ago
Don't tar everyone with the same brush. There are a lot of people out there who figured out that life is much better when you drop the facade and social media glitz. For obvious reasons they don't exactly shout it from the rooftops, they just go on living their own lives in their own way, detached from advertising, trends and fads. Marketing is poison, and the sooner a person learns to ignore it and do their own thing instead, the happier they'll be.
Nasrudith 8y ago
I don't do anything for that reason. That sounds like a marketer's projection instead of any objective reality. It also sounds like the Postmodernist Disease of the Science Wars assuming nothing is real while they write bullshit indistinguishable from a Markov Chain generator output. The prevalence just shows that - not that it isn't pathological.
smolder 8y ago
I make it a point not to sell myself in superficial ways. I'm privileged not to be hideous to look at, and am not completely uninvested in my image, but I don't chase trends or use self help book tips on how to make people like me. It doesn't really help me to be this way, but I am repulsed by the self perpetuating standard rituals of deference, attention seeking, and status signalling that seem to me to preclude what could be a more genuine form of interpersonal discovery.

KozmoNau7 8y ago

Don't tar everyone with the same brush. There are a lot of people out there who figured out that life is much better when you drop the facade and social media glitz. For obvious reasons they don't exactly shout it from the rooftops, they just go on living their own lives in their own way, detached from advertising, trends and fads. Marketing is poison, and the sooner a person learns to ignore it and do their own thing instead, the happier they'll be.

Nasrudith 8y ago

I don't do anything for that reason. That sounds like a marketer's projection instead of any objective reality. It also sounds like the Postmodernist Disease of the Science Wars assuming nothing is real while they write bullshit indistinguishable from a Markov Chain generator output. The prevalence just shows that - not that it isn't pathological.

smolder 8y ago

I make it a point not to sell myself in superficial ways. I'm privileged not to be hideous to look at, and am not completely uninvested in my image, but I don't chase trends or use self help book tips on how to make people like me. It doesn't really help me to be this way, but I am repulsed by the self perpetuating standard rituals of deference, attention seeking, and status signalling that seem to me to preclude what could be a more genuine form of interpersonal discovery.