> the boundary between "I like this" and "I've seen enough people liking this that I now think I like this" gets blurry
Burning Man has a lot of things I’ve never seen before that I wind up liking without anyone else’s validation
Most of that experience is still different than what gets posted online about that experience
If you’re looking for what this article is talking about, it’s there
Yeah I agree that direct experience is definitely a pretty good counterweight. You can definitely discover something completely on your own and genuinely like it, without ever seeing anyone else validate it.
But yeah I wasn't stressing much on this specific idea/notion in my post though.