{"id":6478,"date":"2016-09-21T00:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T05:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2016-09-19T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:52:43","slug":"diderot-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6478","title":{"rendered":"DIDEROT EFFECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Sometimes it\u2019s nice to learn that a\u00a0psychological phenomenon has a name, if only so I no longer have to think of it as Me Being Uniquely Irrational And Self-Defeating. So it is with the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diderot_effect\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Diderot effect<\/a> \u2013 which, I learned recently (via <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Lifehacker.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Lifehacker<\/a>), is the term for when you buy something new, but then it makes your other possessions look timeworn by comparison, so you end up replacing them, too. The inspiration here is <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/diderot\/1769\/regrets.htm\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Denis Diderot\u2019s 1769 essay<\/a> Regrets For My Old Dressing Gown, in which he recounts being given a luxurious replacement. \u201cMy old robe was one with the other rags that surrounded me,\u201d Diderot laments. But \u201call is now discordant\u201d. Before long, he\u2019s obliged to replace his furniture and paintings as well: \u201cI was the absolute master of my old robe. I have become the slave of the new one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/oct\/02\/shopping-diderot-effect-oliver-burkeman\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/oct\/02\/shopping-diderot-effect-oliver-burkeman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes it\u2019s nice to learn that a\u00a0psychological phenomenon has a name, if only so I no longer have to think of it as Me Being Uniquely Irrational And Self-Defeating. So it is with the Diderot effect \u2013 which, I learned recently (via Lifehacker), is the term for when you buy something new, but then it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-possessions","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}