The book, 'Dignity' by Chris Arnade, was mentioned as a book that was sympathetic to the idea of owning the smug elites, explaining that when the elites tell you to do something, there's a tendency to do the opposite, especially if you feel like they don't like you. This could explain why some people choose not to get vaccinated, as a way of defying the elites.
He's the author of Dignity.
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The book, 'Dignity' by Chris Arnade, was mentioned as a book that was sympathetic to the idea of owning the smug elites, explaining that when the elites tell you to do something, there's a tendency to do the opposite, especially if you feel like they don't like you. This could explain why some people choose not to get vaccinated, as a way of defying the elites.
He's the author of Dignity.
And, Chris, one of the things that Crystal and I most appreciate about your work is that you just simply talk to people and you don't judge them.
And I think there's some of that going on here.
This is just a really bad way of kind of trying to do that.
What I call, you know, when you feel stigmatized, when you feel the world is against you, you tend to you tend to make reckless decisions partly to, you know, to kind of like owning the stigma like, you know, you're going to call me a deplorable.