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  1. Mar 2017
    1. It is as though we were to maintain that I apples are healthy because6 wise people eat them, instead of recognizing that it is the other way about-that it is what the food will do for us which makes us eat it, not the fact that we eat it which makes it good food.

      @sophist_monster

      "polite literature" and buying a car simply for the snob value as opposed to buying it because it is good

  2. Feb 2017
    1. ollow the crowd blindly. :I'w-, "'•'" ,_"i"'i.A t¼i

      I find this change in car consumerism, in Britain, accurately portrays both the dangers of blindly following the crowd (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just watch for a few minutes, or until 34:05 (only 5 1/2mins), and why Polite Literature is simply a fad for a lower class to "get ahead," or gain some air or exclusivity.