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> OTOH "social happenings" (which really is a synonym for "people branding", marketing in short) makes no sense at all. But is that because socialization isn't

by shawnz 3y ago

> OTOH "social happenings" (which really is a synonym for "people branding", marketing in short) makes no sense at all. But is that because socialization isn't bound by rules, or is it because the rules are too sophisticated to be fully understood by our current state of the art in social sciences? We (probably) live in a deterministic universe, so doesn't that mean "the rules always apply" for socialization, which is a natural physical occurrence, just as much as they apply for math? To me, dismissing socialization as "making no sense" is just a way of giving up on trying to understand it, but without admitting that.

peoplefromibiza 3y ago
> To me, dismissing socialization as "making no sense" Who did dismiss socializing? We are talking about (quote) social happenings (unquote) among famous people who happen to be famous just because they exploited marketing strategies to become famous for the sake of being famous, with no other talent than being born rich. In that contest the content doesn't make any sense, there is no reason why this year you should wear green and the next one yellow (but it applies only to Hollywood for some reason...[1] do we know what's trendy now in Myanmar? I don't think so), it's a completely random thing, that also has no impact on anybody's life, nothing bad happens if you do not do it and since most of us will never end up on the cover of fashion magazines and tabloids, why should we care about it? Nobody said that you shouldn't have a BBQ with your friends and family and participate in a proper social gathering. [1] the most simple explanation is that these people live basically in a confined space and only associate with other people who happen to live like they do, so if one of them wears a fedora at a party in one of their villas, probably someone else will wear it too, photographers find 3 of them and invent the narrative around "this is the year of the fedora" It's Black Mirror's Mazey Day basically, but if one thinks about it, apart from greed, exploitation and lack of better things to publish, there's not much to gain by studying it, except maybe become one of them or more probably look like a poorer less glamorous cosplayer of one of them.

by shawnz 3y ago

peoplefromibiza 3y ago

> To me, dismissing socialization as "making no sense" Who did dismiss socializing? We are talking about (quote) social happenings (unquote) among famous people who happen to be famous just because they exploited marketing strategies to become famous for the sake of being famous, with no other talent than being born rich. In that contest the content doesn't make any sense, there is no reason why this year you should wear green and the next one yellow (but it applies only to Hollywood for some reason...[1] do we know what's trendy now in Myanmar? I don't think so), it's a completely random thing, that also has no impact on anybody's life, nothing bad happens if you do not do it and since most of us will never end up on the cover of fashion magazines and tabloids, why should we care about it? Nobody said that you shouldn't have a BBQ with your friends and family and participate in a proper social gathering. [1] the most simple explanation is that these people live basically in a confined space and only associate with other people who happen to live like they do, so if one of them wears a fedora at a party in one of their villas, probably someone else will wear it too, photographers find 3 of them and invent the narrative around "this is the year of the fedora" It's Black Mirror's Mazey Day basically, but if one thinks about it, apart from greed, exploitation and lack of better things to publish, there's not much to gain by studying it, except maybe become one of them or more probably look like a poorer less glamorous cosplayer of one of them.