There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
this reminds me of something i just read about the japanese word "majime", which is something like earnest striving. https://www.persuasion.community/p/in-defence-of-striving
Honesty is a bad strategy when all it yields is financial exploitation and manipulation.
Oh,
I am good, thanks.
And how are you?
They are the echo of genX.
Nice to see you on nostr. I love your writing.
Hey, that's me
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“Cringe is the new Cool” thats what I tell my son. I’m old tho.
