I wrote about the NPC Meme, the Frankfurt School, freedom, bondage, video games, mass culture, etc. Give it a readhttps://twitter.com/jacobitemag/status/1046959144941572096 …
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I think the 'snowflake' meme originated with conservatives mocking lefty campus histrionics. I never viewed it as having anything to do with uniqueness or conformity but instead it is about (real or perceived) emotional fragility
There's been a conflation (and really, what else do we ever do with language these days) of "special/precious snowflake" -- a Millennial child praised and rewarded to excess by helicopter parents -- with "delicate snowflake" i.e. a neurotic, thin-skinned clutcher of the pearls
