What’s the event horizon one?
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If you don't know then it's not an option for you :)
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For me personally, yes. In the past I've self-sabotaged my own attempts to identify with subcultures out of paranoia. Probably stemming from lack of group acceptance during adolescence. I still dislike identifying as "ingroup" to any particular subculture, but I'm coming around.
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I experienced a version of this when I used to participate (and "win") in the "let's argue local politics" game. People were blindly following whatever I was saying and pointing to me as a "good example", which I found disturbing https://medium.com/@visakanv/an-analysis-of-power-in-mean-girls-a55c6dff0884 …pic.twitter.com/Bxy0M5BBwd
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No worries. "Unwillingness to identify with a subculture" is an odd statement to me. Looking back at my history, I spent a lot of time and energy trying to participate in almost any subculture that would take me in, but I'd inevitably encounter friction points few others did
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My parents were generally quite indifferent to my identity, I don't think they made much of an attempt to either suppress or nourish it. they kinda left me alone to do my own thing. If I'd to guess, I think the absence of a strong childhood/boyhood ingroup is a better explanation
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Jealous of people who inhabit subcultures more deeply than I do (I mostly don’t) where it ostensibly implies they’ve found a setting where activities of other people somehow coincide with their own interests. (Either that or they’re just molding themselves to fit the subculture.)
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I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that I have been "in some way an outsider" in every inside group that I've ever been (including family, racial group, nationality). It has been so much a part of my reality that I'm amused/astounded to realize how comfortable ppl can be
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I picked 3 because 1 and 2 are wrong, and 4 seems something I don't appreciate/understand. But mainly I inhabit my own head...?
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