In my last post, I argued that cringe occurs when the receiver perceives a gap between what they think someone meant to signal and what actually was communicated.
>Scrolling through outrageous tweets or hilarious videos, you’re scarcely aware of the status games beneath. Entertainment and emotional engrossment are perfect signal carriers—they occupy your conscious attention while the status work happens in the background.
>The most valuable practical wisdom is either proprietary or too context-dependent to survive abstraction.
Cringe cannot exist in a vacuum, it must be observed!
>Scrolling through outrageous tweets or hilarious videos, you’re scarcely aware of the status games beneath. Entertainment and emotional engrossment are perfect signal carriers—they occupy your conscious attention while the status work happens in the background.
>The most valuable practical wisdom is either proprietary or too context-dependent to survive abstraction.
The line between real and fabricated is getting increasingly blurred - sometimes eroding our trust even in authentic content :)))