doomer

(incoming rambling)

I’ve been talking with my friends recently about how oppressively negative a lot of things feel and this is definitely one of the major factors. It really does feel like the default attitude on the Internet is “cynical asshole who’s negative about everything = smart” and “caring about anything is stupid lol.” I used to take this sort of attitude towards things until I realized that I was bad at describing what I genuinely like because I was so caught up in this act of looking like the smart rational cynic and worrying about people looking at me weird because I liked a certain thing. I let all the cringe culture and the “if you like (insert thing) you’re a cringe virgin” memes get to me (I was a teenager ok). I think some people would benefit from asking themselves “What do I love?” and answering earnestly because maybe it’ll make people reflect on how much time they spend tearing down other things and people vs. how much time they spend being genuine and not hateful

I get the feeling a lot of people mistake being a joyless bully for maturity.

South Park and its consequences...

I used to work with an unironic asmongold fan a few years older than me (mid-late 30s). We spent 10-14 hour days alone in the woods together so we talked a bunch. Mostly I would just egg him on while he talked about nonsense conspiracies but the way he talked about literally everything in his life (except for legos) was just so sad. Bro you can like things it’s ok. Just because you can identify a flaw doesn’t mean it’s irredeemable.

One day he dumped all his stuff on his desk and disappeared; we never heard from him again. I would say I hope he’s doing well but he was crusty, dumb, and hateful. Sorry to repeat myself, I already said he was an unironic asmongold fan.

And then you return the favor right back to any of these douchebags and suddenly you’re the bad guy.

It's like these post-modern revolutionary types who want to use maximum cruelty to overthrow the evil goberment, but have no clue what is to be done after, because nobody made V for Vendetta part 2 for them.

Talk about a half measure.

I can recommend this article by China Mieville.

That is how society has worked so oddly, this is a prosocial drive. People know they are supposed to like it, and we can see how the cognitive dissonance of it all hurts people

Our world is a grim place and most people live and die in dip shit. Are you sure you can distinguish between "joyless bully" and "realism"?