Metamodern Oscillation, feelings, truth, freedom and lies.
There's a lot of words here, so let's talk about Preppers, Survivalists, and just accept that in the good old Postmodern World of ten years ago, when we were all Ironic, cigarette smoking and proud of our morpheme laden Metaphysical Attitude, we were content to define preppers as not only weird, heavily armed, underground dwelling and scary, but as Woke Postmodernists in Good Standing we were also obliged to think of these fellow citizens as engaged in a doomed reaction to a Melancholy Critique of our society.
These days of course we're allowed to use words like dim-witted or moronic, even autistic as long as we place the blame on the medical profession, but we are learning to accept our status as an underclass in an oscillation that's placed an A for Effort as the only viable grading of opinion. Which is the cynical way of suggesting that Metamodern Structure of Feelings that promote a regular oscillation between naughty and nice would have found a home in Goebbels' back office behind the door which reads "Moving On." And why?
In a Society, the Self is not the Project, Society is the project, which if true, does rather suggest that orientating the self toward society is the project. Hence Freedom, Truth, Feelings, a mix of realities that can only be brought into a unison through a series of lies, or if you prefer myths that work to create belief through the feelings of faith. It's just a sad fact God doesn't work so well anymore.
How lucky Can-Bobby is. He doesn't feel. No wonder Schlegel became a religious nut. I prefer Ironic Seriousness as the coverall for the Metamodernist Mind.
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