If you don’t pay close attention, all your preferences could end up being not what you actually enjoy but what is high status or what will not anger your tribe

In a weird way with the advent of social media this is happening at scale that is unprecedented 

The other weird thing is all of our preferences are starting to converge; go to Italy in the summer if you are in the US, go to Venice, get a house, get the same instagram ad furniture, wear lulu lemon

Unconsciously were being herded, dangerous if you are not present

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I did swing for a bit and one of my teachers lamented about how all the styles converged and became less interesting post globalization era. It used to be eclectic and unique, they said.

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Robin Hanson’s thesis on cultural drift talks quite a bit about this. You lose the way that different styles may have evolved in a less homogeneous world, and instead they drift from one global trend to another

Things like canva probably didn't help.

Also somewhere read about the "death of the Avantgarde" or at least their lack of being what their name suggests. 

You'd think those should be the people pushing the boundaries or crossing them altogether. 🤷