epidemic insularity
Symptoms of saying "if you do X, you lose" when X is in vogue.
One symptom of aging I thought maybe, but it seems like some people have this symptom even in high school. New, a state of being evasive about X, which many people value positively, because of the fact itself.
The mentality of "I don't like it because it's popular", not because it doesn't fit my values or my tastes.
In the end, he is not so much influenced by trends as he is firm in his own axes of values, which is about the same as the people he hates. ---
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