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I think there is a certain sort of person who, if not "wants" this destabilization, doesn't really experience the alternative. People primarily relating to the world through irony, say. So, characteristically, socrates (, some stand up comedians, and the like) who trade in aporia -- this feeling of destablization.





> I think there is a certain sort of person who, if not "wants" this destabilization, doesn't really experience the alternative.

I agree, but the ability/willingness to engage in that kind of destabilizing irony itself comes from a certain stability, where you can mess with the margins of your own stories' contradictions, without putting the core of your stories under threat.




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