Don’t get rid of the part of you that makes you cringe, get rid of the part of you that cringes.
The kids care. Look up “zombie concert crowds” - the kids don’t want to be “cringe” so they won’t DANCE AT CONCERTS. It’s wild to see
Watching a video or two of the phenomenon made me feel funny in my stomach
And like every generation before you, instead of recognizing the natural differences from one generation to the next, you act like it’s some strange spectacle. Hey maybe dancing at concerts isn’t their culture. It’s that simple. It’s not wild, they’re not zombies, and who cares if they think dancing is cringe. Let them not dance. That’s their new normal, grandpa.
I weep for those who feel their natural humanity eroded because oligarchs can’t stop smushing cameras into everything
There is a choice to not live this way, and to live a more true and grounded experience. That doesn’t involve surveillance state created by your classmates
This is not normal
nAtUrAl HuMaNiTy lol
Literally everything humans do is natural, we are part of nature. There is nothing in existence that isn’t. You’re appealing to a null standard.
The issue I see with that is that it defines “natural” in a way that is both useless, because it literally applies to anything in existence, and doesn’t fit the way people generally use it, that being something more like “how things are when they have not been significantly altered by people”. Under a more typical usage, human activity isn’t natural by definition, not because humans are special in some way but just because the term natural has been arbitrarily created to describe everything except that activity.
I feel sorry for you
And I feel sorry for anyone in a position for you to teach them this nonsense. But shit in one hand and be sorry in the other and see which hand fills up first.
You joke, but ‘cringe culture’ always has been and always will be a tool for the dominant elements of reactionary culture to reinforce normativity, punishing and othering anyone who doesn’t conform.
Unironically, yes. Someone using the word says everything about themselves rather than anyone else. The very thought of being uninhibited or “weird” makes them viscerally recoil, because they lack the strength and self-confidence to be open.
Its a long watch, but very much worth it IMHO.
Talks a lot about cringe and where that reaction can come from and why its worth pushing past
I care. Because other people’s perceptions of me have a real impact on my life. It impacts the jobs I might get, the people I might date, the parties I might get invited to, and the people who might want to be my friends.
The thing about being weird and quirky is that it is art - and bad art is not appealing to almost anyone. A good “quirkiness” needs to hang together - it needs to have good execution, an awareness of the social norms around it even if it is breaking them. And the quirky person must play the role they have set for themselves - either as a deliberate act of art, or else by choosing to emphasize those features of themselves which naturally manifest most readily. And, doing this well, you can become a more appealing, unique, or endearing person.
But that doesn’t mean that every impulse you have needs to be expressed at every time. Being the 35 year old in the IT department who wears a Naruto headband might be quirky but… why? There is a common cultural understanding that doing this is in bad taste - so even if you have other coworkers who like Naruto who you may very well like to be friends with, they will avoid you, because you are demonstrating an inability to either understand or abide by common social norms.
Which is what cringe is - similar to how something can feel painfully hot to warn us that we will get burned if we touch it, cringe is a feeling of pain to warn us that we will get hurt socially if we get too close to the source of pain. It is your mind-body telling you that this person is dangerous to your social standing in whatever group you are a part of.
Hence, Naruto-headband-guy has a quite poor work life. He may have some people who are friendly with him - but no real friends. Few, if any, more experienced coworkers want to mentor him. His supervisor is likely not very fond of him. And as a result, he is typically put on the worse projects, is never promoted, and rarely gets pay raises. Of course, maybe he just doesn’t care about any of those things - but it seems difficult to imagine someone happy to take a $30k pay cut for the sake of a minor fashion accessory.
how much is big normal paying you
cringe.
