Random Rant: I feel like reddit died after they banned all the “unmoderated” communities. All the posts became sanitized. Now reddit is adding AI and streaks and NFTs to keep people on a platform that has no more content.
Random Rant: I feel like reddit died after they banned all the “unmoderated” communities. All the posts became sanitized. Now reddit is adding AI and streaks and NFTs to keep people on a platform that has no more content.
Art and music are not the only things of value to share with society. You can build or farm or create other things of value that you are proud of that are beneficial to society. Social structures and building community are also insanely valuable and our loss of this is one of the big reasons our society is becoming distant and segregated and weakened against oppression. An online space is not a good replacement for this, especially in the current social climate of the world and the current technological situation. Like enjoy it, but it’s candy, it’s an unhealthy substitute for the real thing. But I do also understand how tiresome the world is and I think we can all enjoy a little bit of guilty pleasure when you’re too tired to do anything else. But you absolutely have to recognize it for what it is.
I feel that i fully aknowlaged the selfishness of my actions in terms of the value I bring to society. I simply disagree with the idea that this is for everyone. There have always been outliers or introverts, and they will and have provided value where they can, even If, like you said, its not actually productive to the average experience of the everyday person(like your farm example). Even so I do believe people can do great things from the relative Isolation of their peers. A book for example could radicalize millions.
I will admit that resisting opression by communicating thoughts and ideas with others is paramount, and me and others like me are possibly doing a disservice to the rest of our communities by not being present. But as long as the “isolation” is not a coping mechanism, I don’t see an issue. Sure interaction like this is surface level but to say its unhealthy… Ill agree that too much of this Is unhealthy, but that applies to almost everything. With anything that effects your brain, its all about your relationship with that substace or action not just the substance or action itself.
To me, its as if you view introversion as a mental illness rather than a personality type or lifestyle. Please correct me if im wrong.
Well I’m still talking within the context of the original comment “everyone should feel this kind of community.” But I think we’ve shifted into a different context here, in which case you’re right, introversion is definitely a thing.