epidemic insularity

Symptoms of saying “if you do X, you lose” when X is in vogue.

• One symptom of aging I thought maybe, but it seems like some people have this symptom even in high school.

New, a state of being evasive about X, which many people value positively, because of the fact itself.

• The mentality of “I don’t like it because it’s popular”, not because it doesn’t fit my values or my tastes.

• In the end, he is not so much influenced by trends as he is firm in his own axes of values, which is about the same as the people he hates.

• being on the wrong side of (e.g. an attack)

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