Meaning of assholocene | Babel Free

Definitions

The current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.

derogatory, humorous, slang, vulgar

Examples

““Paleontologists of SFWA will one day refer to this as the Assholocene Era … ””

“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.”

“During the past weeks, I’ve been casting about to see what ideas are already out there. Suggestions I’ve found include the Terrible Twenties, the Long 2016, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.”

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