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At the risk of sounding immature and causing offense (none intended), I think it's important to remember why your initial instinct in youth was to dislike uniro
by sublinear 4y ago
At the risk of sounding immature and causing offense (none intended), I think it's important to remember why your initial instinct in youth was to dislike unironic enthusiasm.
I can only speak for myself, but was trying to avoid being labeled.
I wanted to people to actually get to know me and not just use me as a means to an end. I am not merely my hobbies. I do enjoy helping people out from time to time, but I strongly dislike being someone's "_____ guy". Very easy to be taken advantage of. The world isn't always nice.
- stephen_g 4y agoI mean, if it works for you, then cool. For me, not getting into hobbies and things for that kind of reason would have been the source of massive regret about my life in hindsight. I have always loved getting really interested in all sorts of things, but it's true that it's important to not have a hobby that consumes you to the extent that it's basically the basis of your whole identity, or having only one thing you talk about so you're "that guy". But most people can be enthusiastic about various things and avoid that.
- agileAlligator 4y agoIrony/insincerity is a malaise of modern times. Being sincere about something leaves us vulnerable, open to attack. So we hide under successive layers of irony, until we ourselves aren't sure where our true beliefs lie.