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A pull quote from a recent piece that explains all of our obsessions with Rec League (spoiler it has to do with wanting to be seen as intelligent 🤓) —by Camille Charrièr: “All my mania for culture, for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, what if it’s all a form of vanity, or even worse, a little bandage over the initial wound of my origins?,” Sally Rooney wrote in her 2021 novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? The sentiment stayed with me because it captures a certain strain of millennial anxiety: the idea that taste is not a journey but a virtue. It is no longer a personal endeavor, the stuff you love (or don’t), but another thing to optimize, a tool to stand out in the attention economy.”