[ SECRET POST #2147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2147 ⌋

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Comments

[intrigueing]

Us Americans don't take to pessimism well because tbh, we've never experienced it in a mass-cultural way. We're new. We were never a global empire that fell, we were never conquered, we were never subjugated, we never lost anything big, we never experienced anything on the scale of what Europe experienced in WWI and WWII, etc, etc. If someone else gave us horror and pessimism, we'd think it was cool, a lot of individual people would understand and like it, but it's hard to have any mass-media-esque culturally-rooted shared understanding of or resonance with the concept. We literally don't know how to be pessimistic, because every idea that has come into our heads for the past couple of centuries has been so full of possibilities and we've gotten into the habit of glomming onto all those possibilities and all that optimism instead of poking around with super-bleak stuff that no one really relates to, until it's become second nature and isn't really marketable.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? I don't think it's a bad thing. It's just different than the ideas of some other cultures. I don't think it's better or worse than pessimism and horror and bleakness, or it makes us better or worse than culture who can produce works with it, just different.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, it's not a bad thing. Other folks have peculiarities of their own, and they're sometimes not as harmless as this American thing. In fact, this one rather cheers me up, because whenever I'm in a bad mood I can simply read/watch something American :)

[intrigueing]

Yeah, I get the feeling that Americans have a hard time even thinking up, let alone actually executing, sincerely morbid stuff, as though people's minds have been trained to not go near dark thoughts or something, so on the flip side, I also know that when I'm the mood for something chilling and raw, to try something that's not American ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Then, for those kind of days, I would recommend anything by any Russian ever ;)