The optimal amount of frustration is not zero. Don’t get attached to agency, or worse, performative displays of agentiness like posting midwit memes and NPC jokes.
If you’re not sometimes frustrated you’re not taking enough ideological risk.
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That the “frustrated”archetype in various forms, wojak in particular, has come to dominate memes is actually a good thing. The non-frustrated stock adversaries like chad, topwit-wojak etc are kinda dead in a way. In a Weirding environment only the frustrated are actually alive
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Visible frustration is the costly signal of actual idealism. Because actual idealism dies not work and is frustrating.
Anyone who has a calmly messianic idealist affect has made hidden non-idealistic self-serving arrangements in the background. Their idealism itself is no-cost.
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If you’re not somewhat frustrated on some fronts, some of the time, you’re not paying enough attention.
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No meaning without surprises
No surprises without risks
No risks without agency
No agency without locus of concerns > locus of control
No locus of uncontrolled concerns without noise > signal
No signal-noise problem without classification errors
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No classification errors without ineffective action
No ineffective action without frustration
Ergo no meaning without frustration
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