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I dissent. Bad taste can be a form of art. It's the ultimate pohuyism (from похуй.) You know better. You once may have had taste. But you no longer care. It hurts. But you don't care about that either.
- a barefoot boomer in adidas sweats and a t-shirt that reads: "think, while it's still legal".
But you no longer care.
I am @pessimism perhaps but I think some people don't learn to care beyond a very narrow cone of things.
Hmm. I realized that I really wanna stay naive and believe that involuntary not caring is a function of either ignorance or sociopathy. Where the former can be cured by being exposed to a different world than the safe one (or the one that gaslit you) and the latter currently does not have a cure, but I want to also stay confident that humanity will find a way to fix this eventually.
It's better to be naive. I tend to believe that folks
- want to conserve energy
- care consumes a lot of energy
Therefore people will, on average, care to the extent caring helps them get other needs met. Absent status and power being tightly coupled to caring, I don't expect to see much of it.
Yes. But I don't think that is mutually exclusive with my naïveté. What I think that your belief means to me is that there is just a continuous loss of potential. Which leaves a lot to dream about. A lot of small changes, even suggestions, that may over time accumulate into something that is more beautiful than it was before.
I sometimes feel one-step-fwd-two-back weighing. But then I think about those I was able to inspire, or even nudge along in the slightest of ways. Just through a challenge that the status quo isn't static, or planting a little seed of what could be possible.
It doesn't always work. And I hate failure. But I guess that's also what keeps me on my toes. And not be decadent and lazy. Even all the while, I'm bleeding potential too. Always have been. But we try.
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Cool. I'd love to study slang from all the world's languages. It'd probably teach one a lot about the frontier of communication culture.
It's not that people have bad taste - they generally have no taste because they don't need to develop taste.