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Hilarious and accurate. The biggest benefit to constructing Gladwell books is that everyone is able to discuss the book at cocktail parties even if they haven'
by paulsutter 14y ago
Hilarious and accurate.
The biggest benefit to constructing Gladwell books is that everyone is able to discuss the book at cocktail parties even if they haven't read it. This means that people can put the book on their shelf and feel as if they've read it, without actually having to do the work of reading it. Genius, really.
- pessimizer 14y agoNot only that, but the concepts as stated are 1) so bad that people can already hate the books without having read them - so it's not only part of the conversation at parties, but also the loudest, most contentious conversation at parties, and 2) so vague that they have to be referred to by their short, pithy names, loudly and repeatedly, or else everyone would forget what they were arguing about, and 3) those names are also old tropes that everyone has heard or the essential words in old tropes that everyone has heard, so people feel like the books or concepts must have been around longer and have more basis than they actually do. Of course, this is really the list of the biggest benefits to publishing Gladwell books:)