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[vocodedreality]

Embarrassing moment at work while in the stock room

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4 thoughts that this post spurred.

[runstaverun]

One thing that I have noticed with age is that I am more out of touch with popular culture (The Billboard Hot 100 is rather foreign to me at this point, for example.)

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I've always identified a little bit with the sort of person who is found in their house with 4 televisions and 3 radios all tuned to different things simultaneously.

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Though it comes with its own connotative baggage, maybe a more balanced term would be risk-taking?

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One thing I've gotten much better about is not assuming much about someone just because they like horrible music. I used to be quite bad about that.

Re: 4 thoughts that this post spurred.

[runstaverun]

(also re: adventurousness)
There's a ton of sociological and anthropological research on risk taking both from the societal level of we-need-people-to-innovate-but-also-need-to-eat level and from the individual I'm-doing-things-that-might-harm-me level.

It's neat stuff.

[oldsilenus]

I'd suggest that, sure, risk-taking is one of the big factors, but I think how much of a social outcast one was or wasn't as a child and (especially) as a teenager probably has a lot to do, as well, which what kinds of art (especially music) people listen to. Countercultures are often filled with people who in their formative years couldn't fit into the larger culture, I think.

I think risk-taking it also important, sure, but I think what I'm suggesting is probably another important factor.

[stars_fall_down]

ugh. the shiny toy guns need to DISAPPEAR.