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Unironic basicness has the structure of a self-fulfilling prophecy: “I have no particular talents, interests, hobbies, quirks, privileges, or tastes.” A belief in ones own essential indistinguishability. Paradoxically, it is quite a narcissistic belief if you think about it.
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Once the prophecy of basicness is fulfilled via sitting on your ass for a couple of decades, you graduate to an Unchosen One, smugly blaming non-basic people for everything. It can’t be you because you’re not special. Basicness is, above all, a psychology of convenience.
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I’ve started calling this mentality “reverse FOMO” (still no pithy name for it). I actually remember exact moment I switched from FOMO to anti-FOMO, and realize lately how important small bits of FOMO are to maintain.
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