Outgroup Derangement Syndrome, ODS.
We’re now in Long ODS like Long Covid. It’s depressing. 😵💫
Half the dm groups I’m in now are relentless “omigod look what outgroup did now {lmfao | we’re doomed}” and with zero humor (not counting “humor” that’s about owning the outgroup)
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It’s not even crystallized polarization now as in Trump derangement syndrome vs woke derangement syndrome. Unlike TDS or WDS, Long ODS is a general nebulous sense of the world going to hell because of a nebulous outgroup that’s everywhere and the patuent can’t take their mind off
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I’m in a few groups with opposed biases and I honestly can’t tell them apart anymore.
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Same funereal atmosphere, same gallows “humor,” same inability to take an interest in anything that’s not salient to the ODS.
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I seem to have acquired immunity in the last few years, which makes it hard for me to even pretend to share whatever sentiment is doing the rounds. So mostly I just filter for interesting links
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They’re not bad people, just regular hypersocial people with the imagination part of the brain turned into scorched earth by recent history
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In general what saves my sanity in rough cultural waters is that I’m fundamentally not that interested in people. Probably in the bottom quintile or something. I’m competent enough at navigating peoplings, but can’t care beyond a point.
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It would be unbreakable melancholy if this were the situation with all my private groups. But the other half appears to have a blithe shared immunity and ignores ODS matters and focuses on livelier stuff
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There's a strange melancholy in this immunity, when you wonder if it's possible to achieve that kind of umbrage over anything.
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Wonder why it took me this long to coin the general term ODS 🤔
The general pattern of trauma has been evident across the spectrum since 2014, though it didn’t go epidemic till 2016 or endemic till 2020
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The irony is that doing this makes YOU a Type of Guy. A mutually-assured caricaturization. Death spiral of Types of Guys. twitter.com/MattAlhonte/st
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“Type of Guy!”
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