Justin Tyme posted:

Narcissism and pretentiousness, for example the craze of growing a beard because it somehow makes you more masculine while ignoring the traits that make beards cool to begin with. Lumberjacks and spartans and mountain men and poo poo aren't tough and manly because they have beards, but because they don't live in lofts downtown and ride fixies to the slam poetry reading at the coffee house. It's all a big black hole of I loving Love Science mixed in with a dash of pretending to like bitter as gently caress microbrews because it all makes life a little more exclusive somehow.