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I don't understand your definitions of sincerity, pretentious or vain. I attempted to, by asking you a sequence of questions. They only confuse me further. My o
by eshvk 13y ago
I don't understand your definitions of sincerity, pretentious or vain. I attempted to, by asking you a sequence of questions. They only confuse me further. My only intuition is that you think _vain_, _sincere_ or _pretentious_ are absolute. I think they are relative. E.g. you spending time not working in a cotton field 20 hours of a day to feed your family might be seen as the vain games of the rich by a farmer in third world.
- sp332 13y agoIt's pretty fuzzy, which is why I was surprised when the author claimed that it was about radical sincerity.
- eshvk 13y agoI went back and re-read the paragraph. My understanding of it was that the author opined that things like artisan foods were a sincere expression, an output from a human being who believed truly that this was something that they were doing for themselves as opposed to say doing it to appear "cool". Now, I don't personally claim to have any special intuition of those who make artisan foods considering I have never interacted with and figured out why people do such things. I presume they like the rest of humanity have a wide range of reasons.