[HN Gopher] Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products wi...
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       Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
        
       Author : drankl
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-07-06 22:16 UTC (43 minutes ago)
        
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       | tmseidman wrote:
       | I always feel like these "We do this new horrible thing that's
       | taking over" articles are always blown out of proportion- sure,
       | _some_ people talk that way, maybe it's even trending to talk
       | that way for a significant group of people, but it's not true of
       | everyone, all the time. To me, this trend seems largely confined
       | to youth culture and social media.
       | 
       | I also found it ironic that part of the OP's argument was that
       | nobody has personality anymore, they just have problems to solve,
       | and this article seemed to be doing the same thing, but for
       | culture at large; reducing it to a problem to be solved.
        
       | Arainach wrote:
       | There are some interested points hidden in a of projection from
       | the author here.
       | 
       | >We can't talk about character either. There are no generous
       | people anymore, only people-pleasers. There are no men or women
       | who wear their hearts on their sleeves, only the anxiously
       | attached, or the co-dependent. There are no hard workers, only
       | the traumatised, the insecure overachievers, the neurotically
       | ambitious. We even classify people without their consent.
       | 
       | ....says who? Who talks like this? I've been fortunate enough to
       | travel a fair bit in the last year and I haven't found any city
       | or country where this is the case.
       | 
       | This advice is cliche at this point but go touch grass. Get off
       | the internet and talk to an actual human, because most actual
       | humans don't talk the way this article says they do.
       | 
       | If everything around you is using therapist talk maybe you're
       | hanging around too many therapists. That certainly happens with
       | people who hang around exclusively with, say, software engineers.
        
       | brogdan wrote:
       | I would like a plastic/cosmetic surgeon to weigh in for me on the
       | first picture. How many cosmetic procedures can you identify
       | based off of those two photos alone?
        
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