night falls

Sociology grad student, feminist, atheist, vegan, art appreciator.

The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

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"After all, advertising trains us to keep our desire always at the ready, nurturing that feeling that something is missing, then redirecting it toward a tangible product. In the end, all that pent-up yearning needs a place to go, and now it has that place online. But products are no longer the point. The feeling is the point. And now we can create that feeling for ourselves, then pass it around like a photo album of the life we think we were meant to have but don’t, the people we think we should be but aren’t."

- Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ — www.nytimes.com — Readability

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