Much of what passes for contrarian now is fairly conventional opinions packaged inside an aggrieved, axe-grindey beef-seeking missile attitude.
Your opinion merely bring a minority opinion does not make it contrarian. Even mainstream opinions are <50% these days
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Conversely even the most contrarian takes pass unnoticed if you don’t get all theatrical or beef-seeking and fite-me-irl about them.
For eg. I champion mediocrity and magical thinking now but nobody calls me contrarian because I’m very nice about it
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Wait, so what actually passes as valid contrarianism?
Rebuttals professed by single origin intellect?
Also requires a certain level of decoupling from Global Social Computer in the Cloud?
Sounds Messianic which is a deal breaker for the age of Aquarius.
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I don’t think there is any now. A contrarian in one group is merely a conformist in an adjacent group.
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I recently read that if it doesn't cause you to doubt yourself, and/or make you wary of putting it out there, it's not contrarian. That resonated with me.



