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Contrarianism is an economically, culturally, and socially variable ideology whose only defining feature is opposing any currently prevailing political ideologies and their respective policies. An offshoot of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Apoliticism, Contrarianism does not have any distinct policies of its own, sometimes taking an opposite stance to the powers that be, but often providing no alternative at all, merely leveling criticism without offering any substitute.

In practice, Contrarianism really only works at all when holding an existing government to account, typically proving unelectable. It is a prime example of an ideology that makes for a much better opposition than it does an incumbent.

Beliefs

Contrarianism believes solely in berating and lamenting existing political norms, whatever they may be. Whilst this often sees it occupy left-wing or progressive territory, there are no fixed Contrarian ideals, and under a left-leaning regime, Contrarianism could also function as a vehicle for reactionary right-wing thought.

Variants

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Encyclopedia Dramatica Model

The Encyclopedia Dramatica Model represents the ideology of Encyclopedia Dramatica, a general contrarian, satirical online community centered around a wiki that acts as a "troll archive". Its primary purpose is to write satirical articles about internet phenomena in the most vulgar and lulzy way possible. Anything is mockable from left to right, so long as the article strives for "lulz", then it is acceptable. The culture bears familiarity with early internet culture, especially that relating to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 4chan.

Personality

Whether anyone else says an opinion or even an objective fact, Contrarianism goes out of the way to say the opposite, no matter how absurd or illogical it is.

Basically, the person who hates on <insert popular thing here> because everyone is talking about it, usually without even digging into why it's popular. They just hate it because they think it will make them a much cooler person.

How to draw

Flag of Contrarianism
  1. Draw a ball,
  2. Fill it with four quadrants
    1. The blue quadrant on the bottom left
    2. The red quadrant on the bottom right
    3. The green quadrant on the top right
    4. The yellow quadrant on the top left
  3. Add the eyes, and you're done!
Color Name HEX RGB
Blue #96d4fa 150, 212, 250
Red #fabcbc 250, 188, 188
Green #c8fabc 200, 250, 188
Yellow #fafaaf 250, 250, 175


Relationships

Critical Thinkers

Frenemies

St*tus Quo

Further Information

Gallery

  • Credit: u/Daarekistelemmet, Source

    Credit: u/Daarekistelemmet, Source

Navigation

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Kennan was a "neocon" with anti-democratic views who opposed military interventions and the arms race and wanted to defeat communism through diplomacy with the Soviet Union and other AES regimes.
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