Straight talking
Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. It's one of those nonsense terms that every time I come across it I have to look up the definition, because my brain cannot retain illogical words and phrases. Another one is gaslighting
, a word that bears no relation to its current meaning. I hear it, don't undertand it, look it up, and then just as quickly forget it. As for jumping the shark
, WTF?
I sometimes wonder whether these things are coined by stupid people to make themselves sound clever, or to make me feel like an idiot.
Anyhow, while all of this seems kinda random, it's not. It came to me when watching an 84-year-old retired farmer's response to becoming an ASMR YouTube star. I'm not sure that his traditional meditation and ASMR really have that much in common; but that's irrelevant. He's touched a lot of people globally, and that's cool.
I'll be damned if I remember what it means by tomorrow though.