Did he happen to mention the necessity of acquiring high status via other means (or signalling conformance to high status trends in most other areas) before trying things like this?
Not that I recall… though I suspect that it’d actually work better as an idiot detector if you were not of high status… because you would be more likely to get an honest reaction.
If I were somebody very famous—some people might actually repress their natural tendencies to be an arse about something they didn’t expect… and instead assume that I was being “avant garde”… ie a fashion inspiration instead.
Did he happen to mention the necessity of acquiring high status via other means (or signalling conformance to high status trends in most other areas) before trying things like this?
Not that I recall… though I suspect that it’d actually work better as an idiot detector if you were not of high status… because you would be more likely to get an honest reaction.
If I were somebody very famous—some people might actually repress their natural tendencies to be an arse about something they didn’t expect… and instead assume that I was being “avant garde”… ie a fashion inspiration instead.
Good point.