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by Hokusai 1747 days ago
"Cottage-core: the fetishization of bucolic and isolated life is once again proposed by cottage-core as an escape from declining modernity. "

From the article perspective they are in the pessimist section. As they are pessimist avoid improving the current state.
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blix 1747 days ago
But Cottage-core is in the aesthetic section, not the pessimist section. I also know quite a few people with this general perspective and I don't think any of them would use that label. (To reference another comment; this seems like a Very Online label)

Ultimately this perspective doesn't neatly fit into any of the pidgeonholes the author has created. This is a problem with trying to categorize large numbers of humans into sequential, unrelated categories.

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danjac 1747 days ago
Reminds me of the term "cosy catastrophe" (coined by British SF author Brian Aldiss):

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosyCatastrophe

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