I keep an informal little equation in my head at all times:
irony-poisoned → low trust → fascism
I don’t care if it’s cringe. You have to believe in things, earnestly, to acknowledge that progress is happening and better things yet remain. Your “lol, lmao” at every little thing is death.
irony-poisoned → low trust → fascism
I don’t care if it’s cringe. You have to believe in things, earnestly, to acknowledge that progress is happening and better things yet remain. Your “lol, lmao” at every little thing is death.
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think being online has radicalized me against reflexive contrarianism and irony-poisoning
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It's designed to make people engage with things in a reactionary way and then reinforces that instinct with affirmation if someone likes your post.
Intelligent, well meaning people can get sucke into a cycle of hate
You see something that upsets you, and you comment reflexively on that thing in an angry way. Then, if you aren't careful that anger can just stick with you and consume you for awhile.
It's "brainrot"
I would habitually engage MAGA posters on Twitter, and spew anger, name calling, all to feed my own ego. But all I did was make the problem worse.
I'm determined not to do that anymore, but it's clear very few want to try to engage in a constructive way, for exactly the reasons you cite.
Aside from it being wrong (BP didn't create the concept), I'm-too-informed-for-this-world nihilism is still just nihilism.
It isn’t intuitive, but it’s real.
Any advise on getting out of the despair cycle before it eats you (million dollar question, I know)?
Irony poisoning leads to low trust. Low trust leads to the dark side
Like damn if you're going to run apologia for stalin at least develop his ruthlessness and pragmatism.
Haha, yeah, that part right there.
It's a late exit from pubescent disaffection but most folks had kids by then, back in the day.
over-earnestness -> high gullibility -> fascist collaboration.
A degree of cynicism is a necessary aspect of anti-authoritarianism
We had to cut it out like a cancer. it was hard, because we unconsciously did it often.
I personally feel a level of cynicism (and associated low trust) due to politics (people that want to get rid of me) and due to the amount of snake oil salesmen.
I don't have a proposed solution, only a perspective.
(It’s my generation. And it sucks.)
and I can make the case for what you wrote, but it would not be my first instinct.
Not trying to be difficult. I am earnestly asking? for I prefer other Greeks 🤣
The "Look for the fkn goofball helpers" heuristic
Wreck the process intentionally, then point to the failed process and use that to attack the institutions themselves.
Gen Z has never witnessed functioning American government in person.
genx irony was caustic displays of disaffection for good things (parental love (they never got)) & warm embrace of bad things (heroin).
So disappointing
as genx aged, they adopted the fuddyduddiest stance possible.
when you start getting irony-poisoned all it means is you shed higher layers of thought and revert to base instincts
and there's no baser instinct than "i don't like people who don't look like me"
but for different genetic luck or social situation they would 100% just be groypers
and i do class analysis all the time! call me marx jr because i love it!!! but it's so easy to recognize when someone is only doing it because they don't want to turn their brain on
I'm having trouble remembering it. Other than at the conclusion it had Aleister Crowley screwing the protagonist. During a drug filled Magick ritual