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>Anxiety of Influence
What's so anxiety-inducing about influence?

>> No.15257706

>>15257689
Not living up to it. Underperforming.

>> No.15257720
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15257720

NO WHITE AUTHORS MEANS CANON CANNOT EXIST

>> No.15257730

It's authority imposition. Constructive influence can only happen when you move towards the influencer and he doesn't act as such

>> No.15257736

>>15257720
He really was /ourjew/ wasn't he?

>> No.15257762

>>15257689
Right? Bloom is a man-child.

>> No.15257888

>>15257689
Loss of (the illusion of) originality or self, and the knowledge that it's ultimately -or only- maintained by the most insidious of means: the lie.