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 @literalbanana
can you say this more dumb so i can wrap my head all the way around it
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
in one sense it’s kind of rude to be weird in public because it upsets people and makes them worry
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Replying to @literalbanana
maybe "acting" weird, or at least unpredictably, can worry people, but are there really people that are upset by a weird _appearance_? i can't imagine visual oddities causing anything but joy
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
I’m thinking more about behaviors - my main one is doing yoga in public
11:17 PM - 29 May 2018
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