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I don't know if there's a point to this but I can certainly relate.

by jstx1 4y ago

heresie-dabord 4y ago
At some events, casual conversation has a burdensome, perfomative element. Perhaps what has changed is the veneer. There is more meme-dropping in addition to garish status-boasting. The narrator mentions some interesting ideas but doesn't feel the need to impose himself. I laughed at the passing mention of spirituality without religion... It's hard to Do No Harm in the world that we have built. Narcissocial media has also made people ready to assert things that are -- to be frank -- none of my interest or business.
- brookst 4y ago
  That”s a really interesting take. I see it, and I appreciate you sharing it, but it’s very different from what I got from the piece. I took it to be a bit of self-remonstration about lack of ambition or even interest in anything new.
  - heresie-dabord 4y ago
    That is subtle but present, I agree. I don't know about you, but when it seems that everyone else is meme-dropping and flaunting their exceptionalism (for which they are inevitably so croakingly thankful...), I chide myself momentarily for not being part of the scene. But then I recall that narcissocial media is an empty barrel rolling down a monetised slope. ^_^
  - abruzzi 4y ago
    my read is it is skewering both the "performative over achiever" and the "ambition-less bored under achiever." Maybe its intended as a rorschach test to see which side people see.
    - brookst 4y ago
      I like that. It’s funny to see the thread here where so many are like “yeah, eat that Panera, wallow in emptiness, that’ll show those narcissocialists!” It’s a more subtle piece than it appears. I think you’re spot on.
fullshark 4y ago
It's about a life where you go to parties with people who aren't really friends but are upwardly mobile acquaintances and feel a pressure to one-up each other, or at least convey success to them. This is pretty much life as an unmarried yuppie, as you seek out a mate. It's fairly exhausting after a while.

I don't know if there's a point to this but I can certainly relate.

by jstx1 4y ago

I don't know if there's a point to this but I can certainly relate.

At some events, casual conversation has a burdensome, perfomative element. Perhaps what has changed is the veneer. There is more meme-dropping in addition to garish status-boasting. The narrator mentions some interesting ideas but doesn't feel the need to impose himself. I laughed at the passing mention of spirituality without religion... It's hard to Do No Harm in the world that we have built. Narcissocial media has also made people ready to assert things that are -- to be frank -- none of my interest or business.

brookst 4y ago
That”s a really interesting take. I see it, and I appreciate you sharing it, but it’s very different from what I got from the piece. I took it to be a bit of self-remonstration about lack of ambition or even interest in anything new.
- heresie-dabord 4y ago
  That is subtle but present, I agree. I don't know about you, but when it seems that everyone else is meme-dropping and flaunting their exceptionalism (for which they are inevitably so croakingly thankful...), I chide myself momentarily for not being part of the scene. But then I recall that narcissocial media is an empty barrel rolling down a monetised slope. ^_^
- abruzzi 4y ago
  my read is it is skewering both the "performative over achiever" and the "ambition-less bored under achiever." Maybe its intended as a rorschach test to see which side people see.
  - brookst 4y ago
    I like that. It’s funny to see the thread here where so many are like “yeah, eat that Panera, wallow in emptiness, that’ll show those narcissocialists!” It’s a more subtle piece than it appears. I think you’re spot on.

fullshark 4y ago

It's about a life where you go to parties with people who aren't really friends but are upwardly mobile acquaintances and feel a pressure to one-up each other, or at least convey success to them. This is pretty much life as an unmarried yuppie, as you seek out a mate. It's fairly exhausting after a while.