assholoceneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of asshole +‎ Holocene

名詞

assholocene (uncountable)

1. (slang, derogatory, vulgar, somewhat humorous) The current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.
   • 2014 February 17, Unknown, “SFF.NET SFWA Discussion”, in The Bulletin Petition, SFWA, SFF.NET‎, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

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

   • 2023 October 26, Tadzio Müller, “Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene”, in Friedliche Sabotage‎, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

     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.

   • 2023 December 7, Kyle Chayka, “The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

     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.

参考

• idiocracy