A less wild example I can think of is that someone that is antisocial and had their nose in books used to just be called an introvert or a nerd, but now such a person would probably accused of using escapism to avoid the real world. A harmless personality trait is now considered a concerning problem that an individual should be shamed for.
Not everything outside of reproducing and generating capital is cope.
This is a half-baked thought but I’m kicking around the idea that this hyper-pathologizing urge is the opposite side of the normative coin whose obverse is grindset culture.
The grindset is an extremely narrow and rigid concept of what’s “acceptable” in society and I feel like the shadow that casts is that therefore everything else outside of it is inferior or bad. Throw in that weird online tendency to weaponize therapyspeak which has been on a massive upsurge in the past few years and it feels like the natural consequence of that coupled with the grindset normativity results in everything outside of the grindset being turned into a pathology.
Idk I think I need to take this idea out for a spin a bit more before I decide whether it’s actually accurate and maybe grindset isn’t quite the right term here but I’m sure you get the kind of culture I’m trying to point at with the term. It’s like some sort of cultural phrenology or something.
Yeah, it’s the internalization of neoliberalism. People need to be perfect cogs in the societal machine as like a product. You see this on dating/relationship/dating app advice a lot about how you need to be a perfect candidate free of all dependancies and issues before you’re even allowed to date someone else.
Also just anti-art and solipsism because you see this weird productivist idea that making art is good but experiencing art is bad from grindset/Randian types all the time. I think mostly because they think Marvel movies are the height of culture and associate that with mass-consumerism and think art’s value is just how much money you can make with it and you’re basically scamming other people to care about it in a zero sum way.
Also these might be Tumblr (?) trolls doing a joke in the screenshot.
Also these might be Tumblr (?) trolls doing a joke in the screenshot.
I choose to believe this in order to keep my ailing faith in humanity on life support but the fact that it’s probably just an exaggeration is concerning.
I checked the the last poster’s account and they’re definitely joking. They appear to be a trans leftist of some kind. Although they didn’t post any music suspiciously.
You see this on dating/relationship/dating app advice a lot about how you need to be a perfect candidate free of all dependancies and issues before you’re even allowed to date someone else.
It’s made me completely isolated, imo. I know I have my issues, but this perception that you need to be perfect and 100% confident all the time has made it so hard. The autism hasn’t helped either.
As much as I love a good shitpost it may be time to bring sincere-posting to the forefront as an counterprogramming strategy given that the challenge of determining terminally online weirdo v. shitposter is becoming more and more of an impossible task.
I do love a good wholesome post
Ironyposting by being sincere and straightforward in the insane world.
There’s something to be said about how hiding behind irony allows nastiness to fester.
I started to feel this way after watching a whole bunch of Joe Pera and it kept making me cry. Stupid shit about trees and stuff was making me weepy. Obviously it’s absurd but it pointed to something deeper in me longing to feel a world that isn’t couched behind 15 layers of irony and memetic recitation.
I wish Mark Fisher lived long enough to have finished Acid Communism. But what we have from the intro is him imploring the left to recapture hope. To me, the kindness of someone like Ms. Rachel exemplifies that hope. Sincerity and empathy in an era of ironic detachment and nihilism is radical and gives me hope.
I think you’re totally right, but I do still think parody is a useful tool, it’s just counter-productive to have communities in perpetual roleplay of a semi-directionless “parody” that ends up just as an excuse for real antisociality, which is what “irony poisoning” usually is.
i feel guilty for reading this post since those are someone else’s emotions.
i should be punished. who is going to punish me? please dont clamp my nipples with these nipple clamps i carry in my pocket. dont do that please
Why… why do you have those with you at all times?!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Books? That’s called wordslop now.
Music? Earslop. Anything fuzzy? Textureslop. Food? Slopslop.
Slop? Sloppy
I’m copyrighting my own method for generating mildly excited concentration and it involves a DAW and a guitar. No more mildly excited concentration unless you PAY ME
it’s tumblr, coin flip if it’s a bit or not
or the rarer “it began as a bit but now i sincerely believe it because everyone that argued with me made terrible points”Comrades I have to report this attitude is… Getting worse and not just young folks.
I teach composition in the university. The major journal for our profession, College composition and communication, just published an article with this astounding claim:
. In the context of higher education, the presence of AI has intensified atmospheres of surveillance on college campuses (see McIntyre), including a reliance on AI detection software, a requirement of showing process work (i.e., showing document history in Google Docs), and an in-class restriction of computer devices
Folks, asking a student to show their work is now surveillance. Btw, I should say, instructors demanding Google docs history are obviously gone too far (I write in markdown), but asking a student for process work as some kind of panopticon in a writing class where the goal should be understanding the writing process, not the final product is a totally cracked claim.
What in tarnation
I’ve heard tale that the Gen Alpha teens find outwardly enjoying things to be cringe as their peers will shame them for it on TikTok. But I’m not sure how true that really is.
Panopticon hours
talking to someone, getting them to agree with you on something; upturning the table and screaming THOUGHT THIEF!
But…but…but the Animé they will all be obsessed (and masturbate to) will have music on it
Fuck them, music is the most amazing thing mankind has ever invented. Just tonight I sobbed to a beautiful EP for over 30 minutes and I am thankful that music can reveal such strong emotions from deep within me.
no those emotions came from someone else you just stol… lmao i can’t finish it
Alright but what’s the EP?
The Wave That Got Away by Ben Levin. The second half especially is very touching, though I hadn’t cried to it until yesterday when it just started as soon as I heard the first few notes and went on long after the EP had ended.
I think food is pretty good too. I’ve been bonding with people over food so much recently. I love it.
All external stimulus is manipulation and deceit! A solipsist internal world is the only genuine experience!
If you’re fixated on retvrning, presumably you want to go back to small communities. You know, the kind as far back as we have archeological evidence for? The kind where children played with toys, people played music, and people shared their ideas with each other? The kind that far predates hustle culture by thousands of years I mean.
Ragebait or whatever; the individual as they describe it is a sickness of the mind brought out by atomization
The only true way to experience the world is in a sensory deprivation tank.
No, that’s experiential appropriation of the Pinball Wizard and highly offensive.
pretty sure the ottomans used to execute islamic puritan rebels while forcing them to listen to music
