Stories from inside a kidult bubble culture. The idea that feelings are independent things, to be lived. What…

Stories from inside a kidult bubble culture. The idea that feelings are independent things, to be lived. What I call the ‘culture of the feels’. Putin is happiest crushing resistance, cyber criminals happiest emptying your bank account. Is that ‘spreading happiness’? 1/4 https://t.co/MYumgNWSB0

These ideas and memes cry out somebody in a state of extreme existential fragility. To so badly need to feel a certain way is the pathway to an asylum. A rich, full life is a life of all feelings, appropriately in each context. 2/4

‘Happiness’ suggests the feeling of being happy is an independent state of existence. Feelings are never that. It’s a contrast experience telling you something has changed. You can be toxically happy. 3/4

We should want to have the feelings that we have, each telling us something diagnostic about the life we’re living, in each moment. To attempt to live feelings as independent realities is to be a child. Kidult culture. /end