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Roan


Super High-school Level Sociologist.

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Feb
28th
2014

I've found out why I hate myself. · 4:27pm Feb 28th, 2014

I am a middlebrow, and I spend every waking moment that I possess this knowledge repressing the thought that middlebrows are right to dismiss their privilege, or have the right to deride lowbrows for making imaginative works that have poor structure, or complain about the nuances of a highbrow critique.

For context: a lowbrow is someone that is oppressed and subsequently has a perspective that is limited by that experience and position. The work of a lowbrow is often interesting because it gives incites into the workings of an oppressed individual. A highbrow is someone that has the ability, whether--by way of birth or labor--of observing the workings of the world through their own perspective or an array of many others. The work of a highbrow is generally interesting because it combines perspectives and presents them with opinions that, hopefully, have a lot of analysis (and possibly humor).
A middlebrow is someone in-between the other brows. Someone that has the knowledge or privilege to have an opinion but wastes it--it doesn't matter how they waste it, there are certainly a multitude of options for the act, but the end result is ultimately that the oppression of the lowbrows is renewed with each generation's successive conceits.
If you've ever spoken to someone that has the same opinions as you, but maintains a stubbornness, an ignorance, that appalls you... that is what I am. I'm basically BaroqueNexus.

Having acknowledged this, I make no claim that I have 'checked my privilege' or otherwise made amends with society. To atone for my sins I will need to make an effort to impress on people ideas that do not make them feel uplifted for being as they are, but for being someone who's progressed beyond a past self. Games that make people feel good about the way the world should be (free of oppression), fully acknowledging that it isn't that way, and providing ideas that could help them work towards that better world.

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