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I'm fine with people valuing basedness and celebrating it, even if it is usually self-congratulatory smugness. Everyone has ideological conceits. What's remarkable here is the obliviousness to the fact that it IS in fact an ideological conceit, just like its frenemy, wokeness
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I suspect if it ever goes as mainstream, it will go through the same trajectory as 'woke' did. Start out as a self-evidently positive thing, then a cargo-cult shibboleth/purity test standard, and finally, a demonic attitude to be avoided in oneself, and exorcised in ones friends.
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Qualification: there's no such thing as fully unironic in our post-Zizekian world of course unless you live under a rock, but relatively unironic. Some sort of new sincerity larp kind of unironic.
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I think there is almost always some, at least implicit irony whenever it is used, regardless of who is using it and what their values are, but I may be wrong. Although by "unironically" you may not have meant wholly unironically.
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The dangerous trap people repeatedly fall into it adopting postures kinda ironically in Zizekian-cynical mode, then it becomes an all-consuming larp/kayfabe and before you know it, the mask has become the real thing.
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Don't intend this as a personal attack or subtweet, and I hope it rises above mere concern trolling. Just planting a couple of caution flags for my own use mainly.
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Never go full ironic Sounds weird, but irony isn't just an attitude you feel. It's not an emotion. It is embodied by some sort of explicit self-subversion and self-contradictory tension in what you say/do.
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I didn't use it because it was a Trump thing apparently then started using it ironically after watching Jreg videos exalt off-compass insane ideologies as "Based!" ironically thus aping. But then people got offended by me using it. I blame the Toxic Based Maxis