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Title: Preaching to the Choir
Review: Postrel manages to do nothing more than preach to her choir. Those who believe that our obsession with appearances makes us shallow and easily manipulated will merely point to Postrel as an example of that shallowness and lack of self-perception that makes her easily manipulated; those who accept Postrel's thesis will believe that her opponents are the ones being manipulated into lives of dullness and little imagination.Neither side, and Postrel is particularly guilty of this, can respond to the other with anything more than polemics and platitudes.More importantly, if this is the biggest issue Postrel can find to write about, her world must be a very safe and just place. For those with more pressing concerns, her book is a waste of time.
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