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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Replying to @KevinSimler
I’m just starting to notice it - one of mine is archaic-style headscarf (1950s or 1850s?) with sunglasses
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Replying to @literalbanana @KevinSimler
it’s not normal but it’s the imaginary normal of old hollywood and amish country, “weird but anti-threat”
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Replying to @literalbanana @KevinSimler
Amish are not weird in public. They are, in weird public.
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Replying to @Plinz @KevinSimler
yeah it’s just a way people describe it, not a reference to the actual amish anymore than disneyland is the old west
11:03 PM - 28 May 2018
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