In a society where almost everybody agrees with what you wrote, of course hardly anyone is going to care about anyone's flip flops. What I see around me is a lost, decaying society. My hope was that so-called "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners would try their best to reverse this deadly trend. Clothing: If I approach someone while I'm wearing a potato sack and flip flops (zero proof of work), I'm just disrespecting them and showing how unimportant they are to me. Language: Words matter. The words on your cup mean something. The way we use words can, whether we like it or not and whether we're trying to be funny or not, corrupt our brains:

Obscenities are symptoms of weak minds. | Luke Smith

Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech. You might actually be able to find recordings of me cur...

(He's talking more in the context of anger/swearing, but I think a similar message holds in general.) It's worth mentioning that this subjectivist mentality, that things (including arts and language) are not objective, is a part of the deadly, post-modern philosophy that plagues modern universities and is a big reason why people come out of there with corrupt brains incapable of rational thinking. (It's also the exact opposite of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy, in case anyone is interested. I'm not saying Rand is some prophet and right about everything; I just happen to agree with her on this.)