Jun 8, 2019
said this elsewhere before but I feel compelled to share it here: the misuse of “pretentious” as a means of invalidating the qualia-nested modes of encounter that are channeled through a person’s ways of communicating is one of the most obnoxious things to emerge from that strain of trendy anti-intellectualism on imageboards, and it’s tangled in an inconsistent culture economy that stringently prizes an unrealistic and self-deceptive notion of authentic media engagement via digital platforms.
