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Miss Neecerie said:related to ones 'extremism' and inability to deal with 'normal culture'
Should it be part of a non-descrimination suit or covered by health insurance!
Miss Neecerie said:related to ones 'extremism' and inability to deal with 'normal culture'
Miss Neecerie said:my veer is at least as related to the issue as any of the veers...
Gotcha.Miss Neecerie said:Its germane to the overall discussion of -retro-extremists- because it came up that choices had been made involving employment etc...related to ones 'extremism' and inability to deal with 'normal culture'
I am aware that the original topic was 'which word'....but honestly its veered a dozen times since then.....
my veer is at least as related to the issue as any of the veers...
Doran said:Does this make any sense?
Miss Neecerie said:I was not only referring to his situation......I have known of others who have made employment decisions based on such things as : "oh thats too far to drive to in my vintage car....." etc.....
So perhaps not 'generally'...much like there would not necessarily be anything else that you could say "100% of Atavists do ....."
But I still firmly believe...(and sorry if this makes me a judgmental wretch, I accept that it probably does)...that when you make an employment choice that negatively affects your life (and that negative is for you to decide...fine if you want to live on half the salary you could in order to be able to wear vintage stuff to work).....
You have bigger things to be worrying about then a name.....
In that sense its verging on the guys who -won't- go get a job because it would impinge on computer game time in their life.
It's avoidance of reality. And maybe its coated in a nicer 'olde timey' wrapper then the hard core gamer guys who never move from their chairs..
Those guys also feel a lack of commonality with 'culture' at large and would rather live in their pretend world online........same 'mental thing'...different manifestation.
LizzieMaine said:I see what you're getting at, but I'm still thinking there needs to be a word that could be used to distinguish motivation -- the idea of shading a single word with modifiers suggests we're all basically doing the same thing for the same reasons, it's just some of us do more of it than others, and after three days of discussion, I'm more convinced than ever that this isn't the case. See my example of the atavist vs. the performance artist as an illustration.
My big problem with anachronist, aside from the SCA link:
"I love your dress, are you in a play?"
"No, I'm an anachronist."
"Oh, you mean like Sacco and Vanzetti?"
Seriously, though, speaking for myself, I'm not especially interested in a term for use in casual conversation with the general public -- I'm more interested in a serious, easily-distinguished term that could work in a research setting -- "anachronist" sounds to me just too much like one of those weird bands my niece listens to to work in that context.
Senator Jack said:This is what I don't understand. Does anyone really think that being totally alienated from the modern world, to the point of mental breakdown and near-clinical madness, is something to aspire to? This 'condition' has severely affected my life. (and here, I am going to admit - ADMIT - that this condition once landed me an overnight stay as a 'guest' of NY State). As I said, I just quit my job, because I couldn't stomach the modern music they were playing there. Damn, I wish I were normal, but certainly I can't change: not without years of therapy and perhaps the pills that NY was trying push on me.
Really, I'm baffled.
Regards,
Jack
All I can add is to thine own self be true. If you are not comfortable with the way you are then seek appropriate measures and qualified personnel to assist you.HadleyH said:we like what we like, we are what we are, and that's it. .
LizzieMaine said:I see what you're getting at, but I'm still thinking there needs to be a word that could be used to distinguish motivation -- the idea of shading a single word with modifiers suggests we're all basically doing the same thing for the same reasons, it's just some of us do more of it than others, and after three days of discussion, I'm more convinced than ever that this isn't the case. See my example of the atavist vs. the performance artist as an illustration.
My big problem with anachronist, aside from the SCA link:
"I love your dress, are you in a play?"
"No, I'm an anachronist."
"Oh, you mean like Sacco and Vanzetti?"
Seriously, though, speaking for myself, I'm not especially interested in a term for use in casual conversation with the general public -- I'm more interested in a serious, easily-distinguished term that could work in a research setting -- "anachronist" sounds to me just too much like one of those weird bands my niece listens to to work in that context.
LizzieMaine said:"I love your dress, are you in a play?"
"No, I'm an anachronist."
"Oh, you mean like Sacco and Vanzetti?"
Doran said:But you ARE like Sacco and Vanzetti, my dear.
Doran said:OK how about this then:
a.) Atavist
b.) Anachronist
c.) person who occasionally dresses vintage.
LizzieMaine said:That pretty much fits, actually. I have to say I kind of like "Periodist." Or maybe that works for someone who only does vintage once a month.
Miss Neecerie said:so..
chronotransmogrifer
Doran said:Everyone should know that anachronistic means "out of the period."