Or another common thread could be intimacy. Expressing emotion or conceptual influence = a kind of mental intimacy we don't often share.
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Replying to @chenoehart @edlundart
Like society hasn't created other kinds of fully acceptable rituals for personal emotion and vulnerability to be expressed...
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Replying to @chenoehart @edlundart
I don't think that "society" is the right entity since the majority is oblivious to most art. You have to find your people, not your society
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Replying to @Plinz @chenoehart
Do we think though that the avenues for finding ones people are not well lit?
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Some subcultures have more mainstream recognition than others in disproportionate ways I don't fully understand.
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Replying to @edlundart @Plinz
Why some ideas that might once have been on fringe grow to be more mainstream than others +why aesthetics develop in particular directions.
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There's other specific examples I could bring up, but feel weird doing it where they're things often mocked/looked down on by most people...
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...but yet it's still weird that they amassed, perhaps because of such controversies, larger followings than seem logically possible.
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There is no obvious limit to the number of people that can be infected by a meme, but not everybody will react strongly to aesthetic stimuli
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