Comment by throwworhtthrow
7 hours ago
"Snark is often conflated with cynicism, which is a troublesome misreading. Snark may speak in cynical terms about a cynical world, but it is not cynicism itself. It is a theory of cynicism.
The practice of cynicism is smarm."
From Tom Scocca's "On Smarm" essay, 2013
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