/lit/ - Literature

i think that in its purest and truest sense, "based" is an ontic-semiotic term, a "commendation of being" or mode of self-signification which, eschewing external frames of reference, calls instead upon one's own inmost interiorities, subjectivities, absurdities as origin point (0,0) from whence proceeds the Hyperhuman, grotesque and parabolic. Based.

based on what? on capital A Authenticity (or Anonymity) writ large (or small) with none of the stink of societal coercion, mass opinion, conformity hanging about it. based is the great Diffusion, prismatic. it is the singular infinite (You) giving voice to itself as itself in a language perversely and unflinchingly its own, even and especially when so doing comes at risk of ridicule or general disapprobation.

it's sad, then, that with its growing popularization, the term has been reduced to little more than neoreactionary slang, subcultural shorthand for a particular kind of gleeful contrarianism and incendiary juvenility.