in this context, normie means roughly “someone who earnestly and uncritically believes popular cultural narratives”. at root it’s an epistemic vice of laziness and lack of wisdom in discernment.
Anyone who, in his intercourse with human beings, does not, at one time or another, shimmer with all the colours of distress—green and gray with disgust, surfeit, sympathy, gloom, and loneliness—is certainly not a man of higher taste.
I think romanticizing is not always that bad. It helps to do it sometimes when you're dealing with a repressed memory. I think it is called an advantaged delusion? Sometimes, that's the only way I can remember parts of me l don't want to remember, so that I can lay her to rest and heal.
it makes sense that market anarchists typically just reduce themselves to sniveling moralists at the end of the day
they want to prescribe a change in the superstructure without a clue why it’s developed that way, and the only explanation is Evil and Vice
From the start, whatever happiness is intermittently tolerated or granted by the existing entirety bears the marks of its own particularity. To this day, all happiness is a pledge of what has not yet been, and the belief in its imminence obstructs its becoming.
EXPLAIN WEBDEV TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN WEBDEV TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS A PACKET? WHAT THE FUCK IS TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU