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A populist-esque phenomenon. When someone adopts position after position because the position’s in-group popularity or astroturfed popularity.
This is most often done to increase (social) media engagement rather than being a sincerely held belief or only becomes a sincerely held belief as a result of its popularity and not its rationale or substance.
Surfing from narrative wave to narrative wave of popular opinion among one’s in group.
why are conservatives now supporting abortion and gay rights?
They’re narrative surfing dude.
Usually said when someone is in bother and can't explain their discomfort. Or they do not want to talk about it.
"Hey John, how's your project coming along?"
John: "Narr"
Yiddish, n. A special type of FOOL, characterized by his utter cluelessness, ignorance, and lack of awareness. The Narr's brand of idiocy is referred to as "Narrishkeit."
"What a narr! He gave the entire presentation with his zipper wide open and his shirt tail hanging out through his fly!"
"His big scheme now is selling battery-powered sun dials. Did you ever hear such narrishkeit?"
When a person can only masturbate to a piece of media if it has a clear narrative/story line.
Man I can't jack off to this piece of hentai. Wait a minute it has a story line!!! time to start narrative fapping.
That's not what is actually happening though.
Hym "It isn't a victim vs victimizer narrative. That is clearly not what's happening here. It's NARRATIVE vs WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It's not even epistemology vs ontology anymore. It's Jordan Peterson's imaginary interpretation of events vs the things that actually happened in reality."
What a journalist is supposed to be called today
Well since modern journalists are opinionated and lazy and don't want to do real investigating journalism, we'll lets just call them narrative enforcer cuz they work for a private business and
" enforce" a narrative. The term first appeared on fox news.