assholocene
assholocene proper noun: the current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.
Proper noun
the assholocene
- The current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.
- “Paleontologists of SFWA will one day refer to this as the Assholocene Era … ”2014 February 17, Unknown, “SFF.NET SFWA Discussion”, in The Bulletin Petition, SFWA, SFF.NET, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024
- The epoch in human history in which assholisation, i.e. the normalisation of group-specific misanthropy, is a dominant political dynamic, and the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene - the age of assholes.2023 October 26, Tadzio Müller, “Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene”, in Friedliche Sabotage, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024
Forms of assholocene
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Origin of assholocene
Blend of asshole + Holocene. By surface analysis, asshole + -o- + -cene.
Questions about assholocene
- What does assholocene mean?
- Assholocene means the current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.
- What part of speech is assholocene?
- Assholocene is a proper noun.
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