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Nancy Lebovitz's avatar

Another of the possible ugly reasons is fear of being despised for wearing unfashionable clothes.

See also: 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.'-- Oscar Wilde

It's scary to think that there might be a parallel with popular topics-- they aren't very good, but people don't know what very good is, so they just keep thrashing from one mediocre topic to another.

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What about convenience and what's fresh in your mind? Fashionable topics are probably in your news feed, and on whatever radio talk shows you listen to on your way to work. They're things that others may rant to you about. So even with no particular intentions, you could end up having these topics at your fingertips.

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