@kleeposting its especially absurd in the gym, where people listen to the same music thats blasting on the sound system but with their airpods. on top its all "lock-in" type music from tiktok clips.
@Porkchop_EXP as a european i dont even accept american water as water proper. yes, its a clear fluid and has the same physical properties, but calling it water is an insult to artisanal european mineral water.
Self help program in which trained actors mirror your personality to the point of parody. This is repeated until you’re no longer ashamed of your exaggerated reflection.
There’s a couple more observation to be made here too:
Europe and Japan are forced to make their luxury products garish and gaudy to appeal to the juvenile tastes of the “nouveau middle class” of China/Global South. This has acutely manifested in the luxury car sector, with gaudy grills and comically augmented panels (imagine a BBL, but for cars).
Also the “nouveau middle class” culturally love to consume luxury products in commodity-volume per capita, as a status symbol. The idea of moderation and refinement is lost on them. It’s not uncommon for rich Chinese to smoke Cohiba Behikes (Cuban cigars worth minimum ~$500) daily.
Since all Cuban cigars are only produced by Habanos S.A., an SOE monopolist, overall cigar quality has dropped in their attempt to meet demand.
@FistedFoucault european vs. american idea of what constitutes a high living standard diverges so much its comparing apples and oranges. we dont care about suburban drywall palaces and they probably dont care about 6-weeks vacation or public playgrounds
(Imagined) European validation of American low culture is like crack cocaine to them, it seems. At first, I found it baffling how Red Americans actually seem to feel nationalistic pride of hamburgers, gas stations and cars rather than their national heroes, achievements etc...
@posta_octavian post WW2 has been the rise of feminine WEIRDness which demonstrably is too vulnerable to relativism. need to assert male WEIRDness again.
@witte_sergei indians definitely took the hardest hit to their self esteem in modernity. imagine going from this to getting "land acknowledged" by corporate HR girlbosses in less than two centuries.
@DawsonSWilliams one of the quirks of heidegger scholarship is translators annotating the german for commonplace adverbs and phrases as though they might secretly harbor a conceptual significance. thus creating endless heideggerianisms.