It just struck me how much work the term "personal brand" does to both strip us of our humanity and accelerate our individualist cultural psychosis, while mediating our relationship to our honor, reputation, and standing in society as something that can be remediated through money, propaganda, and "positioning".
Wow. Just monstrous.
John
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