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#1 I once loved a girl who loved John Cusack more than she loved me. This was fine, because Cusack is a pretty cool guy. But I realized that I had viewed the competition completely backward: it was definitely an unfair battle, but not in my favor. It was unfair in Cusack’s favor.
#2 Fake love is a very powerful thing. It can make us do crazy things, like fly to Portland to see the first US appearance by Coldplay, a British pop group that produces fake love as frantically as Ford produces Mustangs.
#3 The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any normalcy. You can’t compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they’re probably modeling themselves after Chandler and Monica.
#4 The media has transfected us all with the Woody Allen personality type, which makes it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, be-spectacled goofballs. This has helped me with many women, and I’m sure it has helped all modern men who look and talk and act like me.
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Insights on Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Contents
Insights from Chapter 1
Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 10
Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 12
Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 15
Insights from Chapter 16
Insights from Chapter 17
Insights from Chapter 18
Insights from Chapter 19
Insights from Chapter 20
Insights from Chapter 21
Insights from Chapter 22
Insights from Chapter 23
Insights from Chapter 24
Insights from Chapter 25
Insights from Chapter 26
Insights from Chapter 27
Insights from Chapter 28
Insights from Chapter 29
Insights from Chapter 30
Insights from Chapter 31
Insights from Chapter 32
Insights from Chapter 33
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
I once loved a girl who loved John Cusack more than she loved me. This was fine, because Cusack is a pretty cool guy. But I realized that I had viewed the competition completely backward: it was definitely an unfair battle, but not in my favor. It was unfair in Cusack’s favor.
#2
Fake love is a very powerful thing. It can make us do crazy things, like fly to Portland to see the first US appearance by Coldplay, a British pop group that produces fake love as frantically as Ford produces Mustangs.
#3
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any normalcy. You can’t compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they’re probably modeling themselves after Chandler and Monica.
#4
The media has transfected us all with the Woody Allen personality type, which makes it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, be-spectacled goofballs. This has helped me with many women, and I’m sure it has helped all modern men who look and talk and act like me.
#5
The media causes sexual misdirection: it prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation
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