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Call it a parenting issue, dismiss, 1st amendment, whatever. I choose whatever and call it unreasonable fixation and absurd negativism towards a single, arbitr

by wruza 2y ago

Call it a parenting issue, dismiss, 1st amendment, whatever. I choose whatever and call it unreasonable fixation and absurd negativism towards a single, arbitrarily selected open-lore idea. Whose roots, btw, find reflections in human perception itself, compared to much simpler plots. Your reasons remain unclear, and I won’t hypothesize, but I’ve met a (pretty common) type before who cannot handle open-endedness in culture. People who can’t help but demand answers from the art house genre and cannot sit still when something is clearly off in a regular movie that is not marked as detective or pre-declared as rewatchable. It’s interesting that you mention religion, because in my experience, this also intersects a lot with religious people, who cannot wait for someone to slowly pull the curtain of knowledge and instead need the answers right here right now, which religion provides happily, creating an absolute closure of a human.

Jerrrrrrry 2y ago
Minecraft, choice blindness, the urge to neither blight nor sight a blank sheet of paper. Some people like facts that end. A conclusion, closure. The backrooms, trivial as a meme (I was in the /x/ thread, so I was fuckin there) was not dangerous until it was commodified via YUoutube/etc, endlessly turning into literal brain rot; useless, endless, addictive information. Of course the only people to who wouldn't dismiss the idea are those with children and developmental psychologists.
Jerrrrrrry 2y ago
This was the only comment that was substantive, non-dismissive, thought provoking, and worth it's weight in literal bits. I actually open any hypothesis you have, because this level of mexa-reflection is too difficult for the average HN poster to acknowledge. But the readers/lurkers can benefit - and for that, and my own curiosity, please continue. The lack of closure due to its infinite definition, the para-social aspects, the commodification, the intellectual entrapment for the most vulnerable audience so enamored by it. Please don't let cowards bury their own insecurities.

by wruza 2y ago

Jerrrrrrry 2y ago

Minecraft, choice blindness, the urge to neither blight nor sight a blank sheet of paper. Some people like facts that end. A conclusion, closure. The backrooms, trivial as a meme (I was in the /x/ thread, so I was fuckin there) was not dangerous until it was commodified via YUoutube/etc, endlessly turning into literal brain rot; useless, endless, addictive information. Of course the only people to who wouldn't dismiss the idea are those with children and developmental psychologists.

Jerrrrrrry 2y ago

This was the only comment that was substantive, non-dismissive, thought provoking, and worth it's weight in literal bits. I actually open any hypothesis you have, because this level of mexa-reflection is too difficult for the average HN poster to acknowledge. But the readers/lurkers can benefit - and for that, and my own curiosity, please continue. The lack of closure due to its infinite definition, the para-social aspects, the commodification, the intellectual entrapment for the most vulnerable audience so enamored by it. Please don't let cowards bury their own insecurities.