This is probably why I have not encountered this "New Sincerity" stuff. That and my devotion to genre fiction.
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Replying to @banalexistence
This old essay kind of captures my issues with Sedaris' writing style and the idea of being "anti-irony"https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
The funny thing is this piece cites David Foster Wallace's cruise essay as a piece of great writing the New Sincerity never could've created but DFW helped *start* that movement with his E Unibus Pluram essay about TV ruining culture
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I dunno, I don't think the divide he's talking about is nearly as sharp as he claims Every snarky satirist has something they very fervently and earnestly believe in that they'll give you hell for mocking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @banalexistence
Every Seth has his showtunes, you might say?
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I feel like this deserved more recognition
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
It's kind of more like Seth getting all self righteous about atheism
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
I just mean that snark and smarm aren't really separate or opposed at all, they always go together Snark is the offensive weapon and smarm the defensive one
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Yeah, or idk - maybe something like 'smarm' is what snark calls its targets, like the con-men and their 'marks'.
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Yeah, smarm is the walls and snark is the catapults And the 4chan Maximum Snark philosophy is this utopian "When there are no more walls we shall be truly free" philosophy Which some well meaning people genuinely believe but hasn't turned out so well
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