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mmkReplace "IDW" with "happy people" in all of your questions and they actually become more difficult to answer. I think we can all agree that happy people exist and that membership in that category is not meaningless
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I think neologisms and proper nouns ought to pay rent and try to be relatively crisp and clear. It's not obvious to me that IDW does any of these things - in fact, it may obscure more than it clarifies.
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The happy comparison is useful, because if we started a club based on being happy and called it the Smiling Dark Web, and wrote articles about it, people would rightly cringe and be confused.
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I think the term was coined with approximately that level of specificity: noticing certain sorts of values colliding with certain sorts of personality traits to generate a particular kind of stubborn generativeness & argumentation. Neither certifiable or meaningless
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