william kent
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There are people who can wield cringe like a sword. I'm thinking of Sacha Baron Cohen, Norm Macdonald and Nathan Fielder-types who seem immune to embarrassment.
Whereas if this is the only space you are allowed to be a pretentious cunt (and be understood) then obviously it's different and there's a kind of threatening space there between different self presentations
Corrective is right, a social cohesion corrective, a reflex. But I think if you stay with the discomfort and look at it from a few angles you can grown and learn about the social environment. I think the corrective cringe reveals there's no core self, reveals the social construction, it's an immune response trying to keep a certain bundle together for the cohesiveness of the herd
It's funny to see all the viral language unconsciously seep into everyone's everyday chat
Last time I saw mr tea he kept shrieking yass queen and trying to high five me
Yeah there's something in that and as Sufi said there's much more chance for dissonance between different selves now we have these various internet mediated selves to juggle. floundering in an existential void between different self presentations horrible panic.
Last time I saw mr tea he kept shrieking yass queen and trying to high five me
I was actually referring to me use 'immune response' and 'herd'... but yes we have to stan, i am dead etc
And England enforces, particularly outside London, a group idiocy. Ireland too I'm sure. Levelling down as the famous Nazi Heidegger put it.
Everyone suddenly learning the words 'toxic', 'normalise' and 'problematic'.