About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of gatekeeping in culture and how it affects personal identity and discovery.
We talk about gatekeeping like it’s always a bad thing, but maybe everything was not meant to be shared, linked, explained, and turned into a template. In this episode of For Your Thoughts, I’m talking about Law Roach, gatekeeping, taste, discovery, collective consciousness, influencer culture, and why life feels so flat when everything is so easy to access. We get into why we keep confusing billboards for moodboards, how the internet turns people into templates and walking sound bites, and what happens when the collective consciousness starts shaping what we want, what we believe, how we date, how we heal, and how we see ourselves. Some things need to be lived. Some things need to be discovered. Some things need to stay yours long enough for you to actually become yourself.
People in this episode
Host: Pennie Anassi
Topics covered
- gatekeeping
- influencer culture
- collective consciousness
- taste
- discovery
- self-identity
Keywords
- gatekeeping
- influencer culture
- collective consciousness
- self-discovery
- taste
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