They told me that hatred of fat was a societal construct, but I never understood why thatshould comfort me. I live in society.
dont really have a comment just wanted to highlight
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dieting, I have found, is its own chronic condition),
connection to article about busyness: one solution always seems to present another problem (weight loss --> dieting, boredom --> busyness)
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Of course people should want to managetheir weight, he said, the same way they’d want to manage their diabetes
perhaps there then needs to be more of a differentiation between weight loss for cosmetics and weight loss for health
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The harder you are on yourself, the worse you do
is this meant to be mean that the harder you are on yourself, the harder it is to please yourself even if you are losing weight or the harder you are on yourself, the harder it is to literally lose weight?
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Society doesn’tnormally change the words for things unless we’re fundamentally uncomfortable with the concepts beneath them
I had the same thought as the other annotation. I grew up in a pretty conservative area and people treated "Black" like it was a bad word and "African American" like a woke term, perhaps to compensate for the general disdain that people have for inhabitants of South Orange County.
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Return your voice mails and nod your agreements. This is the zombies' world, and we just live in it. But we can live better.
cheery despite giving a gloomy message; unfavorable circumstances don't have to guarantee an unhappy life?
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Battling zombies is like battling anything ... or everything.
in fighting the zombies, we take on zombie qualities
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The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.
exhausting to understand life as this
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She doesn’t know how she got here, or who I am, beyond the fact that I care for her, and she takes care of me.
reminds me of "we are all walking each other home"
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a dry run for parenthood, a way of putting down roots when traditional milestones feel out of reach, an enthusiastic housemate for people likely to spend stretches of their 20s and 30s living alone. An even more primary task, though, is helping soothe the psychic wounds of modern life.
Dogs have become whatever we want them to be because they cannot say anything to ruin that or change the way in which we use them. Especially during quarantine, when the nagging of roommates to do dishes and temper tantrums of children are constant, dogs are the perfect objects of our affection.
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And according to restaurant menu data from that year, “mentions of maple as a flavor in nonalcoholic beverages on menus are up 86 percent this year over last. ... Pumpkin mentions, on the other hand, are down 20 percent.”
trends are often cyclical; it will be interesting to see if pumpkin spice lattes make a comeback in a few years, once people have forgotten the overexposure of pumpkin spice in the mid 2010s
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When men enjoy something, they elevate it. But when women enjoy something, they ruin it
I think this can be especially true for the interests of teenage girls
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but Starbucks is able to convince us that the drink should only be consumed during the fall months, thereby increasing demand
ive never thought about this being used as a tactic to increase demand; I suppose I am their target demographic since this advertising unconsciously worked on me haha
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and the meaning of “basic,
this goes to the concept of people not liking things just because it's mainstream, but ignoring the fact that things are popular because they are good
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Busyness is our art form, our civic ritual, our way of being us.
turn in tone on busyness; generally negative or at least not positive before, but this tone changes to show an appreciation for busyness and what it represents about New York and its inhabitants --> duality of concept
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I am sure that he misses me—just as Charlie Ravioli, I realized, must tell his other friends that he is sorry he does not see Olivia more often.
charlie ravioli as a being may be imaginary, but his habits and tendencies are very realized in the culture of New York locals
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We build rhetorical baffles around our lives to keep the crowding out, only to find that we have let nobody we love in.
busyness as a protective measure enables loneliness :(
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Every device that has evolved from the telegram shares the same character.
interesting how culture and communication have developed alongside each other; as someone who has only experienced modern evolutions from the telegram, I can't imagine communication that does not suggest a discussion will follow.
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If the train crowded our streets, the telegram crowded our minds.
train is connection and telegram is communication?
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Pepys had more time to make love because he had fewer friends to answer.
It seems that the idea of "too many choices actually make you unhappier" applies here; having more people to commit to may seem less lonely or more desirable (since being well-liked and popular is always painted as the ideal), yet for people like Pepys, the opposite held true.
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It has even been argued that the grid of streets and cafés and small engagements in the nineteenth-century city—the whole of social life—was designed self-consciously as an escape from that numbing boredom.
Ironically, in attempts to solve the issue of boredom, they then created the issues of busyness, over-commitment, and imaginary friends who are too busy to play with you.
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That sounds completely New York.
Again, this highlights the impact of the environment in which one grows up in on one's personality. Having ruled out that Charlie Ravioli is a response to trauma or a reaction to loneliness, Gopnik is only left with the city and its hustle and bustle to blame.
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But the most peculiarly local thing about Olivia’s imaginary playmate is this
This shows how much children are affected by the environment they are raised in; Olivia is hardly old enough to be able to conceptualize work and yet, in her wildest imagination, she has created a best friend who is conformed to the busyness of New York. Her imagination is informed by New York, rather than by emotions or her happiest fantasies.
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