A Slighted might view a Consensus as sanctimonious, cowardly, conformist, overconfident, boring, virtue signaling, envious, self-deceiving, power-thirsty (in the sense of wanting to be in control of arbitrary social consensus), wanting to cut down tall poppies, arbitrary / not truth seeking, getting sucked into a locked-in equilibrium, tribalistic.
A Consensus might view a Slighted as delusional, aggressive, contrarian, overconfident, wanting to feel special, power-thirsty (in the sense of wanting to avoid social or legal accountability), needing to be put in their place / needing to be socialized / needing moral correction / needed to have values transmitted to them, overly focused on the perceived Slight, having a big ego about their contrarian positions and not updating, getting sucked into spirals of networks of misinformation, reckless, uncaring, tribalistic, paranoid/conspiratorial.
As someone who probably fits under this label (and hopes it’s not too offtopic) I coincidentally had a post including a lot of what my personal beliefs are and how it is like to be under this feeling https://icely.substack.com/p/is-thinking-for-yourself-a-luxury—though I mildly dislike the term just because it feels close to sounding like a “slight” thing, perhaps other words that may give the feeling are like “justified-bitterness, society-disgust, consensus-disgust, disenfranchisement, consensus alienation”.
(Sorry, your post seems pretty interesting but I don’t have enough spare bandwidth; I’ll just note that those things you list here sound of course related to Slight but being Slighted is always a kind of choice you’re making, similar to being Consensus, and neither is that great—they both have advantages and disadvantages. They’re social and attitudinal attractors to some extent, but far from absolute.)
Feel free to respond/go into detail more if you happen to have the time/choose to. I guess I’ll say that is not how I personally experience it. The default state is to be in Consensus and not even be aware there is a choice, even if you were born in some feral culture and then say move to a very different culture, it’s very different because you think your own culture is normal and act that way. At my current point in time to “act Consensus” or to suppress Slighted-beliefs is like a constant forced strain on my moral compass. This is not a choice framing in my opinion, although as is with all definitions people can see very different things in certain words despite potential overlap and I would not want to discount that.
I guess one thing I’m saying is that one can have any given beliefs without taking the Slighted affiliations/attitudes too far. It’s not a mere choice, it’s a skill, potentially a big one (like lots of subskills, like “programming” is a skill), that one could learn over time.
A Slighted might view a Consensus as sanctimonious, cowardly, conformist, overconfident, boring, virtue signaling, envious, self-deceiving, power-thirsty (in the sense of wanting to be in control of arbitrary social consensus), wanting to cut down tall poppies, arbitrary / not truth seeking, getting sucked into a locked-in equilibrium, tribalistic.
A Consensus might view a Slighted as delusional, aggressive, contrarian, overconfident, wanting to feel special, power-thirsty (in the sense of wanting to avoid social or legal accountability), needing to be put in their place / needing to be socialized / needing moral correction / needed to have values transmitted to them, overly focused on the perceived Slight, having a big ego about their contrarian positions and not updating, getting sucked into spirals of networks of misinformation, reckless, uncaring, tribalistic, paranoid/conspiratorial.
As someone who probably fits under this label (and hopes it’s not too offtopic) I coincidentally had a post including a lot of what my personal beliefs are and how it is like to be under this feeling https://icely.substack.com/p/is-thinking-for-yourself-a-luxury—though I mildly dislike the term just because it feels close to sounding like a “slight” thing, perhaps other words that may give the feeling are like “justified-bitterness, society-disgust, consensus-disgust, disenfranchisement, consensus alienation”.
(Sorry, your post seems pretty interesting but I don’t have enough spare bandwidth; I’ll just note that those things you list here sound of course related to Slight but being Slighted is always a kind of choice you’re making, similar to being Consensus, and neither is that great—they both have advantages and disadvantages. They’re social and attitudinal attractors to some extent, but far from absolute.)
Feel free to respond/go into detail more if you happen to have the time/choose to. I guess I’ll say that is not how I personally experience it. The default state is to be in Consensus and not even be aware there is a choice, even if you were born in some feral culture and then say move to a very different culture, it’s very different because you think your own culture is normal and act that way. At my current point in time to “act Consensus” or to suppress Slighted-beliefs is like a constant forced strain on my moral compass. This is not a choice framing in my opinion, although as is with all definitions people can see very different things in certain words despite potential overlap and I would not want to discount that.
I guess one thing I’m saying is that one can have any given beliefs without taking the Slighted affiliations/attitudes too far. It’s not a mere choice, it’s a skill, potentially a big one (like lots of subskills, like “programming” is a skill), that one could learn over time.