All Aquiver: The Decadent Movement

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https://aeon.co/essays/the-danger-of-decadence-is-also-its-value-we-need-more-of-it

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The trick seems to be to rebel against the conventional in a way that's perpendicular to it, not merely —as most rebellions are— a sign flip?

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Yep. If it’s a sign flip it’s not really a rebellion because it’s operating from the same dysfunctional paradigm.

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I feel that it is important to point out to native english speakers that the word "decadent" shares a root with decay, and simply means a decayed rotten state, a decline. It is perjorative. There are no implications of 'opulence', unlike the common usage of "decadence" in English as a sort of slang to describe a rich chocolate cake, for example.

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Citation? I flipped through a few articles on Wikipedia but didn't see anything

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Oscar Wilde's personal life with teenage boys

There's an episode with a young boy in A Rebours, a little googling says chapter 9

I don't think there's a canonical age for Salome's seductive dance but she's often like 12

A decadent work not mentioned here is The Immoralist by Gide, where molesting young Arab boys is much of the plot