/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14841915]

What in the world happened to things being considered either "cool" or "uncool/lame/gay"? Like, there were movies, books, and lifestyles that were cool, and there were others that were gay. And you didn't have to describe why something was bad in coherent, logical terms. You just called it uncool and chucked it into the lame-hole. Now, when people describe their taste in whatever (politics and lit especially), it is always done in a way that would impel a healthy man to shove the speaker in question into a locker. Talking about philosophy and aesthetics and shit. One should them a purple-nurple to get them to shut the fuck up about this dumb nerd stuff.

Where did this binary go? What replaced it? What are some cool books? When will pic related return to save us from this?

[Anonymous No.14841963]

>>14841915
Due to irony and hard line moralism on either side it became irradiated.

[Anonymous No.14841979]

>>14841915
it got replaced by based / cringe.

[Anonymous No.14841984]

>>14841979
Based/cringe dichotomy is fundamentally different.

[Anonymous No.14841986]

>>14841915
"Cool" in the early 2000's was gay.

[Anonymous No.14841996]

>>14841984
how?

[Anonymous No.14842014]

>>14841996
Not him, but for starters, both "based" and "cringe" fall under the larger category of "gay." So figure that one out.

[Anonymous No.14842017]

>>14841996
Because I feel cool/un is not nearly as tainted by irony, while the whole concept of based/cringe is suffused in it. however, I believe that cool/uncool lay within the range of based/cringe, but a based/cringe that is more sincere.

[Anonymous No.14842060]

Why should I explain anything at all to you? You’re lame.

[Anonymous No.14842079]

>>14842014
lame dude, lame.

[Anonymous No.14842096]

What time was ever like this?

[Anonymous No.14842100]

>>14842096
2010, 1985, 1959, some other years.

[Anonymous No.14842112]

read this

[Anonymous No.14842119]

>>14842112
No!
>>14842060
Takes one to know one, lol.

[Anonymous No.14842130]

>>14842119
Well you'll never get your answer.

[Anonymous No.14842141]

>>14842130
Whatever.

[Anonymous No.14842145]

>>14841915
Maybe it has something to do with your recent graduation from high school?

[Anonymous No.14842150]

lmao why are you faggots responding to this underaged baiter.

[Anonymous No.14842161]

>>14842145
>>14842150
Lmao, neither of you get it. Wanna know why?

[Anonymous No.14842168]

>>14841915
lots of dumb women took birth control so there are less retards alive

[Anonymous No.14842185]

>>14842168
uh oh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
>Research suggests that there is an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France and German-speaking countries,[4] a development which appears to have started in the 1990s.[5][6][7][8]

[Anonymous No.14842407]

>>14842185
low IQ high EQ

[Anonymous No.14842429]

>>14842017
I think you're bang out of whack mate. The cool/gay dichotomy that dominated the late 90s early 00s was the fruit of irony. The very concept of "cool" is a fucking mask hiding sincerity. Cool was never sincere, cool was either an act or entirely derived from material aesthetics.

What fucking sincerity was there in the way cool was depicted in the matrix? Funny clothes, slicked hair, and sunglasses. Short sarcastic stoicism with a bite. None of that is sincere.

Now look at gay. The usage of the word itself doesn't even pertain to the definition! That's how high on irony we were back then. That's how far from sincerity we were. Sincerity would have been called gay during that time and you know it.

Realize that cool=aloof. It was a gen x cope that got turned into an identity for sale through marketing products designed to hide as much humanity as possible behind material walls. Big clothes, big shoes, big sunglasses, big vehicles, small nonexistent people. Very little to no displays of emotion. That's the golden age of sincerity you want to return to?

[Anonymous No.14842473]

>>14842429
In a heartbeat.

[Anonymous No.14842479]

Has anyone else noticed that you can't break social boundaries now without being "cringe" in some way? If you think about it for a bit, things people would consider cool include consumerist friendly forces like narcissistic rappers, actors, sports athletes, and ironic humor that reduces all to trivialities of no sacredness. What is "cool" or "based" should be something that counters the values people hold and should therefore be, ironically, cringe. Given how oversocialized people are, they will experience discomfort to anything truly outside of the norm.

[Anonymous No.14842503]

>>14841986
It was already gay in the 70s.

[Anonymous No.14842508]

>>14842473
Then admit your obsession with cool has nothing to do with sincerity. It's likely you are just fetishizing your childhood which was ironically the period of peak irony.

The reason modern behavior is repulsive is because it is a display of sincere appearing behavior based out of cognitive dissonance or ideology. True sincerity always springs from the medium of lived experience. Signaling behavior simulates sincere behavioral response but is based out of ideology or cognitive dissonance. The source is not internal. This gives even greater meaning to the term based.

[Anonymous No.14842522]

>>14842479
Okay, I refuse to talk about this in meme buzzwords, but it really is ridiculous how little you can deviate from social norms on your own. The key is that if you have a partner, suddenly social boundaries can be pushed WAY farther. Like if you see some guy walking alone at 3am he’s a loser, but if he’s walking with a girl he’s having a romantic night. Really makes you think.

[Anonymous No.14842527]

I miss when we could call things gay and retarded. It was so much easier to express yourself.

[Anonymous No.14842535]

>>14842508
You sperged at the wrong person, limey. I don't give a hoot about sincerity, and the other anon is right that the terms based and cringe are drenched in irony.
>>14842527
I think the lack of ability to call things retarded or call people fags is making us all nerds.

[Anonymous No.14842570]

>>14842527
No one is stopping you but yourself.

[Anonymous No.14842660]

Now we have based and redpilled or cringe and bluepilled

[Anonymous No.14842668]

>>14841915
I blame Deleuze

[Anonymous No.14843046]

>>14842168
Women who’re most proactive with birth control are middle class, not working class (who still have many children).