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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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540 points drankl | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source
1. jowea ◴[06 Jul 25 23:16 UTC] No.44485022[source]▶
Interesting article. It reminds me of TVTropes. It's the most systematizing (as opposed to holistically) way of looking at media, decompose it into parts (tropes) that are shared with other media. It feels like approaching the ultimate in the Western scientific orderly systematizing thought.

Anyway here's the relevant trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeasuringTheMari...

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2. aiisjustanif ◴[09 Jul 25 14:29 UTC] No.44510479[source]▶
This came to mind for me as well, if anything I think “Measuring The Marigolds” is in slight opposition to the article and supplements it.

When the article got to using a pros-cons list for having kids, that’s where I found the "put away your calculator and enjoy the beautiful sunrise" moment. You can systematically think about things and still have a personality especially for something as important as having a child. :)

I think a lot of this boils down to that not everything is black and white in life and it sucks to think that way, like assigning labels and using therapy speak this way. Which I very much agree with the original article on.