How does one's intellectual background/history fit into an extrapolated "red sneaker effect" analysis?<p><i>Oh look, the nonconformist is using big words again.</i><p>How utterly mediocre life has become when <i>intellectual pursuits</i> and <i>fashion</i> are so hand-wavingly treated through this concept of "nonconformance".<p>Russell Brand (English comedian) once said a really great thing, after having returned to the U.K somewhere for a talk show, as a way to dismiss a certain class of criticism (or really, criticism of a certain origin):<p><pre><code> "And then I remembered that this was just some thing happening
in America."</code></pre>