Writing

Meiling Is The Cutest Touhou Character And Its Not Because She's Chinese

Or, How Only Cowards Use Lorem Ipsum To Test Website Formatting
blah blah blah yeah her hair is really pretty and i love kung fu movies. i really like her hat and dress. too many touhou characters wear skirts and i think its boring and generally dont really like that. People always assume some kind of fascistic undertone to liking long dresses No its because i get faint from how hard they make me Okay lil bro ? im not deleting this i think its funny

You Need Community More Than You Probably Think

Or, How I Grew To Hate Discord Servers
There is a specific, and to me very concerning ideal among gen z of self-reliance that is not addressed nearly enough. It is far from native to our psyche, rather I think a sort of sickness derived from permanently existing on the internet that has diffused into the real world. This should be prefaced that I do think there is a portion of the population that is perfectly fine with going "Monk Mode", as it were, but they are such a statistically insignificant (However, not culturally insignificant) portion of the population that A. you and me are not a part of that group, and B. they do not matter for this discussion. Monks dont even live alone, not even creepy tantric buddhists. Ridiculous misnomer, a monk probably has a better social life than most people.

Regardless, its something that has weighed heavily on me ever since starting university since people have ritualized a sense of Academic Fraternity that simply Just Doesnt Exist Anymore and I find this bizarre simulacra of a "university experience" frankly disturbing. My point is this: People fail to understand the core principles of community because very few of our generation were socialized properly (Including the normal people, in addition to the people pretending they arent normal), And thus led to a complete loss of faith in society at the micro-scale because people cant really make friends, let alone communities (Which are different from friend groups, by the way.), and will never again take the effort to learn to do so. We lack the foundation to create meaningful connections beyond Aquantaince and Lover (Especially after university, The amount of Shit people pile onto their girlfriends because they Just Dont Know how to properly operate socially is insane), and as a result our attempts at building communities are profoundly hollow. There is nothing I hate more than being surrounded by Cardboard cutouts of something integral to being human, there are one Hundred Jean Baudrillard quotes I could put here and I will spare you from all of them. I am of the unfortunately pessimistic opinion that the rot goes rather deep, and those who people often consider their friends are really just aquantainces, which are fine to have, but not having truly close friends is a slow and agonizing death I would wish on no one. And yet people do nothing to change it, which is fascinating!

No real communities exist at university anymore because we have not only let this pervasive idea of simply Being Alone fester, but actively facilitated it both educationally and socially. Tragically it is more than possible to go through the entirety of university without meaningfully talking to anyone. Ive had classes where ive done this (Not out of fear, mostly out of loathing. In Las Vegas, Of Course) and it is exceedingly easy to dismiss the less than 10% increase in difficulty that naturally comes with dealing with a class alone. Discord servers do not count, Of all varieties. They will never be able to properly and wholly recreate the social experience and have left an entire generation of geeks Kneecapped in grotesque ways that are only achievable in the modern age. Its very prevalent among artists, you see these weird social games that can only develop online which often lead to art that is not only Bad but will never improve because real, actionable criticism has only ever been possible in real, human communities where the critic can be implicitly trusted, where the artist understands that the critique is not a personal attack, nor an absurd tendril of a status game everyone is playing. You will almost never make real art without community. If you are able to find yourself an identity without community eventually you will look in the mirror and realize you have created something monstrously inhuman out of the formless lump of clay you used to be.

All of this is to say I think the Half-Asian Club at uni is hilarious on the metaphysical level. There is certainly more to this, I could talk about its comorbidities like irony poisoning Ad Nauseam, but im sure you already implicitly understand all of that. I trust you. This is, I think, the greatest ailment that affects us, and the trouble is that everyone really is just fine with it. Its alarming when the misanthropic types in society start talking like this.

Alternative? Alternative To What?

Or, Will You Love Me If I Dress Funny?
Im something approximating an alternative man. In which regard its an approximation ill leave up to reader interpretation (Isnt My Writing Just So Cute? :]). Regardless, the total and irreversible collapse of of the fringes of society blah blah ive been mad that alt means literally nothing anymore since like grade 11 ill finish this later when im being pissy again

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Undying Optimism And Infinite Smiles

Or, Uncharacteristic Behaviour And A Lack Of Lithium Salts
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