Behaviors and artifact displays that reassure observers that despite acting weird in public you won’t violate the order of civil inattention
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People who get really good at being publicly weird develop abnormal but “hypernormal” normality-reassurance displays
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Anyone have examples of this? It seems true right but hard to get specific
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pls to example
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I’m just starting to notice it - one of mine is archaic-style headscarf (1950s or 1850s?) with sunglasses
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If your natural state is weird to other people you spend much of your life developing normality-reassurance display. The degree to which you can drop that in public is contextual and has to be carefully calibrated.
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yeah this seems like the most interesting thing - hard to see but definitely there
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In "H is for Hawk" the author says (paraphrasing badly) that T.H. White learned that if you want to be different in a large way it is best to over-adhere to the norm in all the small ways.
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I need to think about this more
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YES i am a weirdo and this feels so instinctively correct
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stop subtweeting me banan
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you mean they start drinking a lot and eventually od on sleeping pills?
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