Bouvard on Language, Ideology, and Authenticity

"the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism" is a very strange phrase. "Frigidity" is especially bizarre, since it's not used to mean "cold" or "frozen." "Chill" might have worked here. Someone wanted a noun from "frigid" and didn't know the meaning

of "frigidity." Why "rugged" with "individualism," when there's no corresponding adjective with "collectivism"?An Ai wouldn't produce this text but someoner familiar with ways of parodying traditional notions of individualism would have--"rugged" invokes the easily ridiculed

"Marlboro Man" stereotype. I wonder if they also couldn't find an adjective that wouldn't make "collectivism" sound creepier ("comforting"? "embracing"?) or bureaucratic, so they just settled with the stylistic imbalance. And there must have been a demand for "collectivism,"

because someone must have known how many alarm bells that would set off. For some faction, a more anondyne word like "community" wouldn't have been "forceful" enough. What a strange time this will be in NYC.

@truepeers No I think it’s someone who didn’t know what “frigidity” meant and started with “frigid.” I don’t think a leftist would want to code “rugged individualism” as female, or use an outdated “sexist” term for women’s sexual dysfunction.

A good proving ground for new legal strategies.

And "warmth" goes much better with "community" than wtih "collectivism," which always has a rather hard, technical edge to it, even when used positively.

@truepeers But then "rugged individualism" would have to be good--otherwise "frigidity" still preserves its meaning of unresponsiveness. For it to be "reclaimed" it would have to be a "we're frigid and we're proud" type of thing.

@truepeers Then they'd just go with "impotence" (which hits much harder)--but then that doesn't match "warmth," so... yeah, it's too convoluted at this point.