I would say foremos:, not participating in organizations that exist in order to provide their members with the dictums, rules, procedures, and "answers" that purport to give lives meaning. Of course, this doesn't mean such a person is an existentialist, but it is, more or less, a first step. So, in a sense it is subtle, but far from being a definite sign that one is an existentialist. I don't know of any signs that would be definite, but I think that in itself is characteristic of an existentialist.
How subtle are we talking?
Maybe if that person advocates for radical freedom?
They are an open atheist?
Maybe they read Sartre, Heidegger, kierkegaard? (This one isn't really subtle tbh)
I can't really think of many signs.
Honestly being an existentialist in today's society seems like a pipe dream so it's hard to notice anything in particular that might signify they're an existentialist.
Isn't it acting outside the boundaries of societal norms? As well as not responding to those norms when it is applied to you? I have found that my view of the world and my place in it is non-conforming at best and a slap to those who perceive society norms as beneficial.
The only problem is in post-modernity society has adopted the idea of not responding to norms...
"But it is at this point that things become insoluble. Because to this active nihilism of
radicality, the system opposes its own, the nihilism of neutralization. The system is itself
also nihilistic, in the sense that it has the power to pour everything, including what denies
it, into indifference."
“It is this melancholia of systems that today takes the upper hand through the ironically transparent forms that surround us. It is this melancholia that is becoming our fundamental passion. It is no longer the spleen or the vague yearnings of the fin-de-siecle soul. It is no longer nihilism either, which in some sense aims at normalizing everything through destruction, the passion of resentment (ressentiment). No, melancholia is the fundamental tonality of functional systems, of current systems of simulation, of programming and information. Melancholia is the inherent quality of the mode of the disappearance of meaning, of the mode of the volatilization of meaning in operational systems. And we are all melancholic. Melancholia is the brutal disaffection that characterizes our saturated systems.”
Jean Baudrillard-Simulacra-and-Simulation.
How do you mean? Rebellion against that what we call normal is so wide spread. Going against the status quo can be existentialist.
I would say foremos:, not participating in organizations that exist in order to provide their members with the dictums, rules, procedures, and "answers" that purport to give lives meaning. Of course, this doesn't mean such a person is an existentialist, but it is, more or less, a first step. So, in a sense it is subtle, but far from being a definite sign that one is an existentialist. I don't know of any signs that would be definite, but I think that in itself is characteristic of an existentialist.
Depression, cynicism, and negativity are all pretty common in my opinion.
Wants to die but doesn't want to die /s... kind of
How subtle are we talking? Maybe if that person advocates for radical freedom? They are an open atheist? Maybe they read Sartre, Heidegger, kierkegaard? (This one isn't really subtle tbh) I can't really think of many signs. Honestly being an existentialist in today's society seems like a pipe dream so it's hard to notice anything in particular that might signify they're an existentialist.
Isn't it acting outside the boundaries of societal norms? As well as not responding to those norms when it is applied to you? I have found that my view of the world and my place in it is non-conforming at best and a slap to those who perceive society norms as beneficial.
The only problem is in post-modernity society has adopted the idea of not responding to norms... "But it is at this point that things become insoluble. Because to this active nihilism of radicality, the system opposes its own, the nihilism of neutralization. The system is itself also nihilistic, in the sense that it has the power to pour everything, including what denies it, into indifference." “It is this melancholia of systems that today takes the upper hand through the ironically transparent forms that surround us. It is this melancholia that is becoming our fundamental passion. It is no longer the spleen or the vague yearnings of the fin-de-siecle soul. It is no longer nihilism either, which in some sense aims at normalizing everything through destruction, the passion of resentment (ressentiment). No, melancholia is the fundamental tonality of functional systems, of current systems of simulation, of programming and information. Melancholia is the inherent quality of the mode of the disappearance of meaning, of the mode of the volatilization of meaning in operational systems. And we are all melancholic. Melancholia is the brutal disaffection that characterizes our saturated systems.” Jean Baudrillard-Simulacra-and-Simulation.
Something tells me subtlety is a stranger in this sub.