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> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... It's a weird time for art. A lot of people's immediate reaction to genuine expression thes
by Tadpole9181 1y ago
> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry...
It's a weird time for art. A lot of people's immediate reaction to genuine expression these days is "cringe".
I suppose that's always been the case to some degree, but it feels more prevalent now with internet-level attention span and broadcasting breadth.
- nine_k 1y agoFacing an avalanche of troubling, attention-grabbing, manipulative, and often misleading information, people protect their sanity by irony and nonchalance. A genuine expression, which does not employ irony and invites the reader to also cast away the shield of cynicism, feels both like an attack and the pull of something desirable but unattainable. The resulting pain, modulated by the protective irony, is expressed as cringe.