Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Nobody uses the word wicked literally anymore. Eg: “one great and wicked project fermenting and working all over Europe.” (from a 1797 book about alleged Illuminati conspiracy where the word appears 31 times) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47605/47605-h/47605-h.htm
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
“Wicked” strikes me as having connotations of wilful pursuit of immoral designs. Evil in motion. Pity it’s fallen into disuse. The modern British usage in the sense of “cool” is much less interesting. “Evil” is a conscious disposition, “bad” is an external judgment, but “wicked” is like installi
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Metalheads still use “wicked” as both cool and OS for evil. It’s a larp 🤘but not everything cool is wicked and most coolistas don’t thing of most wicked things are cool. If designated “wicked” is because there’s a supposed to be a OS behind it
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Like, metal music fans? I’m really thinking of wicked in the sense of straight-up villainy. Not any flavor of cultural-subversive cool.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
I understood. My point is that metal music larp is modeled on straight-up villainy. Am I evil? is a great tune and a cornerstone of the genre 😈 https://youtu.be/mbgv587ooNM https://i.imgur.com/Cb9hQX2.jpg
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Heh zero knowledge of the genre so mildly surprised it’s so… juvenile
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Well, that’s sort of the point. Little nuggets of youth kept intact in (now) silicon traveling through space time 😏
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