Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Accent of Self-Hatred

 I've mentioned before that leftists and less-leftists have a barely distinguishable accent. You don't even need to be able to understand what they're saying to know how they vote. Subtle, but not subliminal.

 There's also a status-anxiety and/or self-hatred accent. Less subtle. I've heard folk speaking without this accent just long enough to know it's not impossible. When nothing they do matters, all their social bonds are temporary, and they have nowhere to be, they can finally relax for what might as well be the first and last time ever. It can also happen with altered consciousness. When someone is so sleepy they forget to hate themselves, or when blitzed out of their mind in just the right way.

 In particular, everyone recording themselves has an extremely thick self-hatred accent. Likewise, you can't post on twitter without the accent, it would seem. It's thick enough to show up in text.

 Naturally, monkey see, monkey do. Viewers adopt the accent as in-group, which in turn triggers the self-hatred fixed actions patterns if they somehow weren't already running.

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