@sivori I think its also the reductionism inherent in scientific terms that make our feelings seem tractable like we can isolate them in a petri dish and grab them with a tweezer. Instead, we must only feel them.
If you abandon the detached medicalizing language of modernity, you can. It lacks poetry.
Instead of depression, you may have the blues or be plagued by the dark dog or the surplus of black bile, “melancholy”. You may have waded through sorrow and climbed out of the pit of despair.
Instead of anxiety, you can acknowledge the poetry of fear and find that you were gnawed at by premonitions of failure but then found new courage.
The robotic mutation of language dehumanizes our experiences, our struggles.
A key part of adulthood is understanding that the entire world will not reshuffle itself to cater to one’s individual preferences, but a side effect of living in an algorithmic, consumerist world is people believing it should.
Being neurodivergent is when everyone is watching you get bullied by someone who is hitting way below the belt, crushing your soul for no reason, and no one steps in. But the minute you defend yourself with something you think is unremarkable yet kinda snarky, the whole crowd turns on you like "Whoa! Too far! | can't believe you just said that! That's so mean!"
@suchnerve as an act of protest against zoomers’ crusade against human emotions, I have made the conscious decision of being cringely over-expressive !!!!!!!!
@scarycath You didn’t like his show so he shouldn’t defend it? Personally I think it’s refreshing to see an actor defend a decades old network show instead of bashing it like many do. He has every right.
I think people who are cruel to themselves often believe their internal harshness is positive/makes them better people. this leads to suspicion of those who seem to allow themselves to take up more space or seem to believe they deserve gentleness
@factsaboutrats1@eNeecie@websnacker@hughlaurie@jan_murray What you’ve described is one of the most tragic cultural shifts of this century imo..
For some reason, people have started valuing dull, drab, lifeless computer-generated babble more than organic human speech, it’s so stupid.