April 22nd, 2010 / 5:07 pm
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Matthew Simmons—
What’s an outsider? UPDATE: But, seriously—are you an “outsider”? What makes you one?
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An outsider is somebody who hasn’t bothered to do the hard work and take the time to get inside something. Exceptions: Apartheid regimes, etc. In those cases, an outsider could be almost anyone, since the parameters are outside the purview of effort, talent, or drive.
An outsider is somebody who hasn’t bothered to do the hard work and take the time to get inside something. Exceptions: Apartheid regimes, etc. In those cases, an outsider could be almost anyone, since the parameters are outside the purview of effort, talent, or drive.
pussy.
pussy.
An outsider is someone who does work the cool kids cannot profitably mimic.
An outsider is someone who does work the cool kids cannot profitably mimic.
Everyone is an outsider somewhere and an insider somewhere else.
Everyone is an outsider somewhere and an insider somewhere else.
An outsider is someone without internet access.
An outsider is someone without internet access.
seconded.
seconded.
I believe an outsider is simply someone not trained in the classical school. Or at least that is where the term comes from in art. Or I could be wrong on this and simply dreamed it.
like nonconformists – outsiders are in their own club.
as for whether or not I am an outsider – if you say I am then I am, if you say I am not, then I am not.
I believe an outsider is simply someone not trained in the classical school. Or at least that is where the term comes from in art. Or I could be wrong on this and simply dreamed it.
like nonconformists – outsiders are in their own club.
as for whether or not I am an outsider – if you say I am then I am, if you say I am not, then I am not.
via Eminem’s “I am whatever you say I am.”?
via Eminem’s “I am whatever you say I am.”?
‘damn’
i feel like this is both true and untrue: on a ‘cultural taste’ level, if someone without internet access has cable television or a local barnes and noble, isn’t said person going to be prone to liking more hegemonically available products and ideas, at least in this day and age (where people are even, often, too lazy to google something, i doubt humanity’s ability to “discover cool shit” without the internet any more) certainly they are outsiders to the (imagined) “online literary community” (insert a footnote for benedict anderson here), but the “online literary community” is ostensibly outsider in relation to shit people pick up in the grocery store check-out line
‘damn’
i feel like this is both true and untrue: on a ‘cultural taste’ level, if someone without internet access has cable television or a local barnes and noble, isn’t said person going to be prone to liking more hegemonically available products and ideas, at least in this day and age (where people are even, often, too lazy to google something, i doubt humanity’s ability to “discover cool shit” without the internet any more) certainly they are outsiders to the (imagined) “online literary community” (insert a footnote for benedict anderson here), but the “online literary community” is ostensibly outsider in relation to shit people pick up in the grocery store check-out line
I am too much in the sun.
I am too much in the sun.
no, dipshit, via Sitting Bulls “If you call my religion pagen, then yes, at present I am a pagan.”
no, dipshit, via Sitting Bulls “If you call my religion pagen, then yes, at present I am a pagan.”
Outsider is somebody not going along with mainstream. In the times of postmodernity his life is hard.
Outsider is somebody not going along with mainstream. In the times of postmodernity his life is hard.