Don't take yourself so seriously

Don't take yourself so seriously, everyone is going to die one day and everyone is doing what they think is the best for them. 

I love this site, the people, and the democratic nature of the blogs here. No influencers, no ads and no algorithms to keep you glued to the screen watching cOnTEnt. No pressure to look professional and sanitised for your employers and acquaintances, no all white layouts (ironic for this blog). 

Of course you see a lot of self-branding, even from people who claim not to be aware of enough to engage in it, but that is our current zeitgeist. We have been raised thinking that all the valuable things can be bought and sold, so we have to be good at selling ourselves and showing our best attributes. We are never gonna be able to get to know other people completely and it has always been like that.

The other day I was reading a really illustrative article on curiosity cabinets, these quirky expositions of miscellaneous items, from fossils to navigation tools. But honestly, people in the renaissance were also pretending that they had collected all these objects by themselves in epic adventures to foreign lands, when they had actually bought everything from the market (a renaissance version of Etsy?). Reminds me of something else as well... Consumption has been a form of self-expression even before Edward Bernays, which is fascinating to me. We believe that our times are so unprecedented and dystopian, but history just rhymes. 

Another example is the cult classic movie, Paris is burning (a masterpiece about queer life in the NY of 1990). The veteran drag queens at the moment were already complaining about the new performers basing their costumes on characters of popular shows of the time like Dinasty (1981). The veterans also expressed their dissapointment at urban drag losing its DIY spirit and becoming more about flaunting high-end designer garments. All of this, are the exact same critiques that new season of RuPaul drag race receive... So we have always been complaining biatches.

"Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this."

Eccleasiastes 7:10