I'll probably mature out of it some day. For the time being, I think that among my entire cohort the outlets for the negative energy brought on by everything consist of:
Irony
Consumption
Externalizing violence
Internalizing violence, like substance abuse, SH and worse
Therefore it's just the least bad coping mechanism that is within reach. The best way forward is to channel the rage into organizing and doing the actions I've spent the last years reading about, but until I reach the point in my life where that makes sense to do I need somewhere to pour the energy. I don't mean to defend irony poisoned brainrot, but I think there's different levels of it, and some are certainly close to benign. Like, I sometimes see something horrible and react with "dudes rock, hell yeah" and cringe at my own detachment. But that's also pretty far away from whatever Red Scare is doing. So I guess you can just be a brain half wormed kinda person? Also I think that retaining the ability to be earnest about it and talk about it goes a long way, which I think fellow irony poisoned folks should try out.
Also I think that retaining the ability to be earnest about it and talk about it goes a long way, which I think fellow irony poisoned folks should try out.
You have more self awareness than the typical "nothing affects me nothing offends me EXCEPT THAT THAT AND THAT" type aging edgelords, and you have the courage to acknowledge it's a coping strategy and not a personality substitute, so I'm cool with that.
I'll probably mature out of it some day. For the time being, I think that among my entire cohort the outlets for the negative energy brought on by everything consist of:
Therefore it's just the least bad coping mechanism that is within reach. The best way forward is to channel the rage into organizing and doing the actions I've spent the last years reading about, but until I reach the point in my life where that makes sense to do I need somewhere to pour the energy. I don't mean to defend irony poisoned brainrot, but I think there's different levels of it, and some are certainly close to benign. Like, I sometimes see something horrible and react with "dudes rock, hell yeah" and cringe at my own detachment. But that's also pretty far away from whatever Red Scare is doing. So I guess you can just be a brain half wormed kinda person? Also I think that retaining the ability to be earnest about it and talk about it goes a long way, which I think fellow irony poisoned folks should try out.
You have more self awareness than the typical "nothing affects me nothing offends me EXCEPT THAT THAT AND THAT"
type aging edgelords, and you have the courage to acknowledge it's a coping strategy and not a personality substitute, so I'm cool with that.
I think to an extent consumption can be more healthy than irony poisoning if what we mean by that is watching a show and ordering a pizza or something