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
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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Replying to @BraveNewJames
I need to think about this more
7:21 PM - 25 Jun 2018
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