shakahislop
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Normies aren't into trainsWeird that trains have come up so often in this thread.
Normies aren't into trainsWeird that trains have come up so often in this thread.
Indeed. I mean the 'trainspotter' is a whole weirdo stereotype in itself.Normies aren't into trains
never heard of this? how do you know?A lot of creative types can't drive
No point learning how to drive if you can't afford to, for one thing.never heard of this? how do you know?
A large part of the mythos and metaphorical existence of the normie is IMO tethered to online/alternative tropes like "seeing through the matrix"
Another more social constructivist/cultural relativist way to say this IMO is "the view outside games"
I think some non normies are just highly online people who live and breath contrarian counter-signal type discourse. They are superficially "not normie"/Very Online but in a deeper way, they are normies with a different brand
IMO the true break from normiedom is concurrent with a kind of awareness of the condtructedness/aribtrariness of ones cultural norms, and the freedom that follows from this awareness. It is about de-naturalizing and de-objecticizing social reality. And becoming open to many worlds of possible being and existing and experiencing as a result. And building your own little world and code from pieces salvaged and schlepped.
As Schutz and IIRC Husserl (and many others in the phenomenological tradition) write, the taken-for-grantedness of the social-coordination-equilibrium's shared, normative perspective is the base illusion on which all other illusions are predicated
"Culture is your operating system", as McKenna put it.this basic idea is everywhere once you think about it. husserl's epoché, shklovskys recognotion vs seeing, bergson's analysis vs. intuition, heidegger no doubt.
Zazus maybe?american cultural commentary has a habit of creating neologisms I think. it can often be a more precise vocabulary than what we have in the UK. Or in France for that matter. I might just not know about it but apart from dog punks and bobos i don't know any terms french people use to describe these kinds of things
I feel like theres been an analogue for the term before internet culture became what it is. Didnt 90's goths say normie or something of the like?This is what comes to mind when I hear the term tbh. A pejorative for people who aren't as 'online', i.e. aren't aware of various podcast dramas, conspiracy theories, memes, niche politics etc, used by people who
"There's this cottage industry of labels where the musicians look like math teachers," he [Musician Stephen Malkmus] said. "They wear total normie outfits. It's normie radicalism."
Normie was used in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, although with a different meaning than it has today. In this instance, normie was used by the Garbage Pail Kids characters (grotesque versions of the then-popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls) to differentiate between themselves and humans.
As is so often true of slang, the term normie is older than you may think. Shortened from normal and combined with the informal, diminutive –ie suffix, normie is evidenced in the written record as early as the 1950s. Historically, the term has been specifically used as a way for people with physical disabilities to refer to people without them.
Yeah neurotypical, and well-adjusted maybe“neurotypical” comes close I think
Id say its far from it, though non neurotypical people could be less likely to be normies, though maybe not. But what I think is crucial here is that normiedom is all dependent on choice. see a wealthy, neurotypical person rejecting normiedom via that upper middle class ennui“neurotypical” comes close I think
Why? Just habit you fell into or deliberate affectation or you think it's easier/quicker than 'thank you" or what?Yes I do that regularly
And "TY" more than thank you