Thank you! I’ll admit my experience is a bit limited, and I haven’t had much exposure to Desi EAs, but this sounds like a good extra category I, and maybe others in EA from the US or UK, often neglect in our analyses. “IDW” stands for “Intellectual Dark Web”, which is sort of the name given to a group of centrist or right leaning, anti-woke public intellectuals like Steven Pinker and Sam Harris. “A-aesthetic” is just supposed to mean “non-aesthetic”, as in avoiding attaching some particular cultural aesthetic to one’s messaging.
FWIW, when I first saw that I wondered “what’s the difference between the A-aesthetic and the B-aesthetic?” It might be clearer to say “non-aesthetic” or just something like “no frills”.
Agreed, in retrospect it is pretty obvious that there is no good way to attach the prefix “a” to a word that starts with an “a” and have anyone intuitively get what you mean.
Thank you! I’ll admit my experience is a bit limited, and I haven’t had much exposure to Desi EAs, but this sounds like a good extra category I, and maybe others in EA from the US or UK, often neglect in our analyses. “IDW” stands for “Intellectual Dark Web”, which is sort of the name given to a group of centrist or right leaning, anti-woke public intellectuals like Steven Pinker and Sam Harris. “A-aesthetic” is just supposed to mean “non-aesthetic”, as in avoiding attaching some particular cultural aesthetic to one’s messaging.
FWIW, when I first saw that I wondered “what’s the difference between the A-aesthetic and the B-aesthetic?” It might be clearer to say “non-aesthetic” or just something like “no frills”.
Agreed, in retrospect it is pretty obvious that there is no good way to attach the prefix “a” to a word that starts with an “a” and have anyone intuitively get what you mean.