{"id":5537,"date":"2021-05-29T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2021-05-29T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:42:51","slug":"desirability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/29\/desirability\/","title":{"rendered":"desirability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had posted a question on Twitter a few days back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As an adult 21-26 years, what is your incentive of posting\/sharing pictures everyday on the social media platforms? What do you get out of those posts?<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1397776926622707712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got many replies. I was chatting with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/subbuj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Subbu (opens in a new tab)\">Subbu<\/a> today and, he mentioned our quest for desirability. We want to be liked and appreciated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know that capitalism thrives on our loneliness, boredom. We should add desirability as well to it. The three pillars have fostered civilizations, empires, and everything in past and present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Darwin said only things which matter to our species boils down to propagating our DNA or reproduction. The desirability bug of ours works towards ensuring that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had posted a question on Twitter a few days back. I got many replies. I was chatting with Subbu today and, he mentioned our quest for desirability. We want to be liked and appreciated. We all know that capitalism thrives on our loneliness, boredom. We should add desirability as well to it. The three &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/29\/desirability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;desirability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[1140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}