The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Hopepunk works. Try it and I guarantee you will feel better - and so will the people around you. It's positively infectious.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
There's a lot of sets where morale is low; people are just a little too mellow, and that's infectious. So when someone calls 'Action,' you have to spike your energy up and fight against the current of the room.
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.