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Originally Posted by Kuroi Hadou
No... we live on vicarious displays of badass-ness and trolling.  |
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Originally Posted by Kuroi Hadou
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Originally Posted by Oxford English Dictionary
VICARIOUS
vi·car·i·ous [vahy-kair-ee-uhs, vi-]
–adjective
3. felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others
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What's oxymoronic about it?  |
How do you display that? given that definition the subject is already removed from the experience, it's just an observer.
Or is it a chain of actions? ...
we enjoy watching people "feel through imagined participation" of badass-ness and trolling that other people do on yet another group of people
... It's like the stalker chain from Zetsubou Sensei... though I guess that stated like that it wouldn't be "oxymoronic"...