2x2 idea: weird/normal, optimist/pessimist.
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Normal Pessimist is like cops and soldiers: “life is harsh and dangerous so stay on the straight-and-narrow; individual whims are a luxury you can’t afford.”
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Normal Optimist is like superhero movies, upbeat pop songs, “Everything is fine, or would be if those damn malcontents didn’t make it DIFFICULT! Just like things and don’t dislike things, okay?!”
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Weird Pessimist is the malcontents. Edgy, nihilist, sarcastic, making art about how fucked up things are.
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Weird Optimist is absurdist whimsy. It seems kind of a missing affect these days, but I remember it from, say, Flaming Lips-era indie pop, or early BoingBoing. “Whee! So random and bizarre! I love it! The squares are missing out!”
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Tbh I feel like she’s actually Weird Pessimist with a new Normal Optimist gloss from the corporate thing.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
But she all about just doing random stuff for the sake of self affirmation and weeeeing! at life
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Replying to @ArtirKel
It doesn’t ring true to me. Being “politically incorrect” on purpose has a resentful edginess that I think is more Weird Pessimist. Anything channish belongs in that quadrant.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
tbh i wish i was being anti-pc on purpose. would be much easier to grok than having to use alts to convey true opinions on things because everyone in silicon valley is performatively subscribing to the status quo™ ps. i'm def an optimist
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Fair enough. I'm commenting on the @rivatez persona, not judging you as a person.
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