Owen

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[Owen @World3tk]

@giantgio i'm sure future historians will have much to say about the primary aesthetic innovation of the early 2020s being early moldy-food hallucination AI art

[Owen @World3tk]

@CarolinaLion2 the president of the united states having a total mental breakdown live on video would be an extremely 2020s thing to have happen

[Owen @World3tk]

@PonsukeTheSilly 600mg of caffeine in 24h is like my lower threshold

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(sometimes, of course, the iconoclasm is purely visceral - you hate the norm, you hate the institution, you want to yell at it as a form of release)

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Antagonistic therapy fantasy, wherein one 'pulls one over' on the therapist by successfully presenting a false identity. Still validation seeking, much like intentionally posting in an iconoclastic mode on social media, aiming to demonstrate just how Out of Step they are

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Rather than appealing to some institutional or societal Other, one performs for an imagined Higher Self who observes from afar, pleased to see you haven't been shorn of your beloved idiosyncrasies

[Owen @World3tk]

@revenant_MMXX part of it does come down to how much time a person spent online in their formative years. some 80s kids still seem "old school" but i've also met literal boomers who had 'online' energy because they were posting on usenet back in the day or something

[Owen @World3tk]

@revenant_MMXX tbh everything after like 1980 (saying this as someone born in 91) simultaneously much more granular but also all mashed together in this weird way, like it could be a dozen microgenerations or one big "internet kids" generation

[Owen @World3tk]

@delawarecryptid @sadreturns Part of it is a medicinal sound thing, there's states harsh noise can induce that (most?) conventional music can't, just like there's things bitter foods can do that sweet foods can't

[Owen @World3tk]

juxtaposed against a kind of less individually-focused sense of freedom which promises one will eventually master self-discipline in service to The Good, and the satisfaction from achieving this will be far greater than any kind of momentary hedonistic pursuit

[Owen @World3tk]

Naïve romanticism yearns for the thing which will liberate you from the saturnine constraints of your mundane life - "True Love will set you free" - as opposed to a kind of romanticism that reframes those constraints as the foundation of human flourishing, thus beautifying them

[Owen @World3tk]

certainly w/in the modern would, Freedom tends to be associated w/ a certain kind of overwhelming intensity that blots out all other concerns - the intensity of falling in love, the intensity of intoxication, the intensity of the gooncave

[Owen @World3tk]

@dangusgrungus @_unluckyseven_ @Y2K_mindset yes frequently, i thought that would be implicit from the fact that i talk like that

[Owen @World3tk]

@_unluckyseven_ @Y2K_mindset AI & wojaks really are this incredible engine for revealing archetypical forms in the collective unconscious, like it's just this constant evolutionary process of depicting the perfect 'kind of guy' who'll trigger the most intense visceral reactions in people

[Owen @World3tk]

@sadreturns yeah, they definitely exist on a spectrum from "tonal/pleasant" (like recordings of windchimes or birdsong) to "harsh/noisy" (factory machines) but it all serves to expand notions of what kind of sounds are 'worth' recording or consciously meditating upon

[Owen @World3tk]

@polyfraggrenade the 'hysterical 2010s wokeoid' archetype will linger on in propaganda for decades, like how various media would make fun of stereotypical woodstock-era hippies up until like the early 2000s