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The Cultural Impact of Personal Branding and Political Shifts
The speaker explores the idea of human beings as brands and the negative consequences of perceiving ourselves as commodities./nPeople who present themselves as commodities online may face cruelty and a lack of trust from others./nThe turning point for the speaker was when they witnessed the anti-lockdown and anti-vax movements infiltrating their community, leading to strange new alliances and a mass migration of beliefs./nThe speaker highlights the relationship between the obsession with perfecting individual selves and the inability to unite and address collective crises.