in a similar way to 2nd wave emo having skramz and midwest emo poles, 5th wave emo has a more electronic/experimental pole and a more revival/traditional pole
i’ve not really ever been worried about being “fundamentally unloveable”, mostly because i didn’t have a stable enough identity to attribute immutable properties to
i'm not like a functionalist purist or anything but it gets to a point where its an impediment to accomplishing anything while also being ugly as balls
“what matters are not discussions but encounters.” but this can only mean that in a murky sphere of togetherness the moment of friction between competing thoughts, the notion that the various forms of reason work away at one another, is cut off.
i used to be off-put of trying to articulate an understanding beyond my ability but i came to recognize it was a contributor to my debility yknow? so i gotta do it to both push my boundaries and concretize my existing understanding, and sometimes that means punching above my weight class
the ignorant double down would be embarrassing if i were to stand by the things i say but i'm pretty evidently just tangling myself up to expose what i don't understand to myself
ig something that will illustrate my current discomfort is like the strategies that will refuse dichotimization rather than understand the nature of the existing dichotomy that imposes itself, and idealistically (in both senses of the word) pretends like the historical position can be overcome with