Why do we enjoy watching lives we know are edited?
Follow the trail through influencers, advertising, aspiration, envy, aesthetics and the human habit of comparing our backstage with somebody else's highlight reel.
No test. No worksheet. No need to “finish” this page. Rabbit Holes are for the moment when something in class makes you wonder about something else.
Follow the trail through influencers, advertising, aspiration, envy, aesthetics and the human habit of comparing our backstage with somebody else's highlight reel.
Music. Fashion. Family stories. Films. Political slogans. What exactly are we remembering when the memory isn't ours?
Hero. Criminal. Rebel. Victim. Influencer. Activist. Troublemaker. The facts may stay still while the frame moves.
Authorship, intention, originality, connection and the odd difference between being moved by words and knowing somebody meant them.
Careers, identities, entertainment, relationships, products, possibilities. At what point does opportunity turn into pressure?
Empathy, imagination, identification — and why an invented life can sometimes stay with us longer than a fact.
Not every detour is useful. But curiosity often begins when one idea unexpectedly connects to another.
A sentence, image, contradiction, fact or question you can't quite leave alone.
Find another text, person, source, film, podcast, article or conversation that adds something.
Come back to the original question. Do you see it differently now?
What have you looked up “just for a minute” and then found yourself still reading about an hour later?
That kind of curiosity belongs here.