3 traits I’ve noticed most often in people who get cripplingly invested in culture warring: - Lack of strong individual interests outside of group affiliations - Sense of humor restricted to amirite and mockery - Totalizing (hedgehog) aesthetics
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Of the 3 criteria, which I think are each almost necessary and collectively almost sufficient, it’s the #2, amirite-mockery humor that makes is awkward to tag explicitly. Though I think I have a decent, broad sense of humor both as consumer and producer, it’s cringe to claim this
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But I don’t know how else to describe this. It’s not humorlessness only. It’s narrow humor range. If life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think, perhaps it’s rare to have high humor and emotion range. Humor is an anti-emotion in a way.
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Humor is how intense feelings you didn’t know you had present their ridiculous aspect and find release. So there’s almost a zero-sum there based on a personality set point. You can laugh more or feel more. It’s not a choice, it’s a trait.
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It’s not that thinking preference implies high quality thought or that feeling preference implies refined, nuanced emotional processing. It just means you lean towards thinking by default or feeling by default. Not that you’re good at it.
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Anyhoo, not sure where I was going with the thread. I guess it’s sort of an update to my 2017 culture war map, and the internet of beefs post this year. I’ve concluded we’re in a chronic end-of-history conflict with no vaccine, so wear a culture-war mask and get on with your life
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Adding this thought here. There’s an aspect of inability to play here, as a core culture-warrior trait. They can do sports, and play cat-mouse, or bully, but not play. Important exception is a subset of shitposting edgelords. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1284658772384702464?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1284658772384702464 …
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The distinction is probably finite-game play (Huizenga) vs infinite-game play (Carse). The former strives to win (“own the libs” and “spot the your/you’re error” are clear examples). It’s play of sorts and there is laughter, but it’s not jumping-in-puddles type fun.
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“Games Culture Warriors Play” would be a good inventory to attempt.
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straussian!
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