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Although that example, and that general scenario, is perhaps more aptly referred to as normcore than normie. It’s as if normcore is a post-alt movement toward normal.
Isn't this in large part how straight-edge arose in the 80s?An example of this last point is the film The Rage in Placid Lake wherein the protagonist is raised in a hippy family, and rebels by becoming corporate. Within that parochial family context, the hippy is the norm, and the son opts for an alternative/counterculture, which happens to be the norm in the wider societal context.
Thomas Aquinas and steam trains.
Thomas (Aquinas) The Tank Engine would make a great webcomic.Thomas the Tank Engine.
Yeah straight-edge seems like a good example: a position that is defined as a departure from counterculture.Isn't this in large part how straight-edge arose in the 80s?
I'm now imagining a Dissensian version of this, where the parents are into some things that are sort of conventionally unconventional - say, Deleuze and Guattari, kabbalah - and the son instead gets heavily into Thomas Aquinas and steam trains.
yes, most people I know do. but not in the 4 chan connotationDo you use the word 'normie' in real life? @linebaugh
fwiw i've heard increasing amounts of people do thisI can't imagine saying it. It'd be like saying "lol" in an actual conversation.
Kind of, yeahIsn't this in large part how straight-edge arose in the 80s?
Can you explain what that difference is though for the older ones amongst us... er, obviously I know exactly what you mean here but I doubt I would explain it as well as you and I think that you should lay it out simply in terms that, say, Leo could grasp easily.theres a subtle difference between normal and normie though. @suspended is normal but I wouldnt say a normie.
The TLDR/clarification I guess is that straight edge was a reaction but not against counterculture. In so much as the counterculture had become mainstream so to react against it was to create a new counterculture.Kind of, yeah
Nominally normal ain't no normie.Can you explain what that difference is though for the older ones amongst us... er, obviously I know exactly what you mean here but I doubt I would explain it as well as you and I think that you should lay it out simply in terms that, say, Leo could grasp easily.