A temptation of subcultural intellectualism is wanting to adopt to esoteric takes for roughly same reason you might want to wear uniquely “you” clothes. This poses a problem when best arguments are in fact boring, familiar ones that are commodities in intellectual fashion sense.
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It’s basically about shorting intellectual fashions in order to bet on an unfashionably persistent condition that everybody has become bored by, but hasn’t actually changed or been affected by unhappy people trying to shake things up and disturb the boring equilibrium
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I’m not much of a radical but I recognize when things are being shaken up successfully, whether or not I like the before/after shake-up transition. But I also try to take note of when shake-up attempts aren’t actually doing anything. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
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The converse is acting basic just to troll the snooty subculturalites around obvious insecurities. Acting basic when I actually take the insecure-esoteric positions seriously is a stronger temptation for me than temptation to act esoteric when I actually believe the basic take.
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The temptation to esotericism sucks in excellence oriented types. The temptation to trollish basicness sucks in mediocrity oriented type like me.
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