Right or wrong, it's a consistent message over the last several weeks that has come from half a dozen or more second hand sources.
Boston's prestigious Newbury Street shopping district has more second hand stores than ever, a brilliant kid offers a TED talk on his aim to become a lunatic farmer, and a young woman is blogging about detoxing from over consumptive fashion by wearing one dress for a year.
We realize the need for more first-hand knowledge.
My experiences were less elaborate and more first-hand and it was very much with a camera in my face.
Indeed, recent days have brought forth yet more first-hand accounts about people's ongoing struggle to cope with their disabled children, the black hole they felt themselves falling into.
Satan is more than just a devil on the shoulder – he's a character with a degree of wisdom, and more first-hand knowledge of Jesus's father than Jesus does.
The party needs plumbers, teachers, blacks, Asians and others peopling not only its stage-managed photo shoots but also its constituency offices and platforms.To reach these potential new Tories and gain more first-hand experience of the social ills and public-sector dysfunction that Mr Cameron says he wants to fix the party must rebuild a base in the cities.
To put it another way: until a smoking-gun email or more first-hand testimony from labels about exactly what they were told by YouTube is published, the arguments over whether the company is bullying labels or not will continue to rage.
A more first-hand Borscht production, Terence Nance's "Swimming in Your Skin Again" (Vimeo), from 2015, similarly captures the emotional climate and landscape of Miami but by means of music, choreography, metaphor, and with Nance's own distinctive mix of animation and effects with live action.
But they concede that it may also simply force smokers inside, sparing dresses perhaps, but exposing others to more second-hand smoke than before.
