/lit/ - Literature

Well OP, and here are my 2 cents.

Being edgy doesn't necesarily mean: 'I don't fit [with society], how I dislike mainstream politics and media and how I think everyone is stupid' As far as how I view it, being edgy means to have an opinion on subjects of social importance, such as religion, politics or economy, that's purely based on an acid criticism and trying to be contrary, generally these opinions and ideas are regurgitated from someone else and the Edgy person only dominates the superficial part of them. An Edgy guy wouldn't develop their ideologies to the point of putting them in a debate, because to him they are absolute truths and they don't have a sound base of arguments in favour of them. Generally there is the feeling of thinking that they are an special snowflake in the world.

Take for example any edgy type of guy on the Internet, let's say that he is Atheist. He will defend 'his' form Atheism out of pure ignorance to feel superior and contrary to the established. Would he answer with strong arguments against the defense of Aquinas of the existance of God as the 'prima causa'? I don't think so, he would, regurgitate the ideas of someone else. Being Edgy in part means that one wants to be an special snowflake, but lacks the will to not be a subject of other's ideas, you just accept them because they give meaning to your life. Plus, he isn't balanced about what he thinks, you can dislike a position, but you also need to understand the different POV's that exist and not give a tantrum or feel a superiority complex against others, if you understood a subject which you feel you have an strong opinion about, you shouldn't be emotionally surprised about others thoughts.

If you are a mature person, you will develop your own ideas about morality, politics or social justice, but, even if they are alike with someone else's (let's say you are inspired by a writer), yours should be unique to you because you dwelved on the subjects for enough time to realize that you agree and disagree on certain topics with the person that wrote them. It would be extremely hard that you meet another person that has the same thoughts on everything as you do. Uniqueness isn't something you thrived, but something that you realized. If you are mature and you are an Atheist, you wouldn't say things like: 'I hate God and Christianity, they made society stagnate for 1000 years. You should feel bad about this!', instead something like: 'I found very unlikely the existance of God for this reasons ... Although I don't have the same opinion as you, I respect religion and what they did'

Yes OP, you can think that media and politicians are wrong, if you have an strong, mature and well thought opinion without being a 17 yo edgy boy. Maturity doesn't relate with status-quo either, maturity means that you got over the phase in your life when you thought you where the only person that exists in this world, and that you needed to fight (and win) with everyone about everything.