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paging all those fond of sesquipedalian verbiage!

bonus points if you don't know what you are saying!

points will be deducted for propagating colonialistic dageurrotypes, prosthelitizing erroneous falsehoods of the pernicious persuasion, and manumitting masturbatory milquetoastian malapropisms!

proceed, gentlemen!

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On the surface, Superfuture itself seems to me to offer a parallel view of society itself; those with jawns are praised, and those without are marginalized. This is the typical belonging-exclusion dichotomy that we see mirrored in the everyday. But of course real life isn't so simple--the view Superfuture offers is parallax, not parallel. Superfuture, while appearing to be a straightforward representation of society, offers not a parallel analogy but instead a metonymic one, one in which overpriced trinkets and pseudodermal clothing are associated with status, both social and economic, intelligence, and, surprisingly, taste. The reality of the situation is that there are a few who possess seemingly precognitive powers with regard to adapting next-level trends, but sadly, the majority are content to indulge in an onanistic celebration of shibboleth brands and designers. The obverse to this, of course, is that some brands and designers are Gileadites and some are Ephraimites, so to speak. All of this borders on the foolhardy; at the end of the day, what looks good looks good, regardless of the WAYWT caucus. The world that Superfuture evinces is not real life; it does not asymptote toward real life; it doesn't even approximate real life. It is a Bizarro world, a niche, in which many of the posters, in a desperate attempt to win "reputation" and the acceptance of their compeers, are willing to turn their life into a Potemkin village; what is revealed in the lens of the camera, in the series of self-laudatory anecdotes, one may safely wager, oftentimes lacks the veracity of the actual. Some may use their posting history to act as a (in some cases, therapeutic) sort of bildungsroman, but the majority, in a perhaps desperate attempt to placate whatever insecuriities they may already otherwise internalized, offer narratives that have clearly been embellished or, in some cases, falsified. Given the strides made in the technological manipulation of representation, even a photograph or a series of photographs can no longer serve as evidence of anything. Endless exegeses don't matter; endless photostreams don't matter; in the end, we find ourselves reliving the Copernican revolution all over again, in which our entire world, our entire universe is being decentered, and we come to the realization that only existence matters. But Superfuture itself is not a bad thing; as long as one is cognizant of the fact that Superfuture is Superfuture and nothing more than that, then, and only then I would argue, can one fully partake in the Superfuture experience.

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the sheer tenacity of the plethora of curmudgeons in said thread have denigrated its former gulliverian status to mere lillipution proportions...

tsk tsk: lilliputian is the correct spelling

but you used milquetoast, which is awesome, so no points deducted

oh and one of the most misused and overused terms from college? Cartesian

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