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I don't even know my neighbors real names
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Speak for yourself. I am not hiding inside so I can be miserable and lonely; I just find social interactions to be energy draining, so I need a lot of time in solitude to recharge.
Me too but it didn't stop me from actually working on that and viewing it as what it is, not an identity quirk but an obstacle towards progress for myself and my community.
It isn't quite clear to me how burning myself out helps anyone.
"I don't know how this helps me!" said the karate student doing pushups. "I came here to learn how to not get hurt, what good does hurting myself this way accomplish?"
"Oww! Oww! Oww! My broken arm still hurts!"
"Stop whining and keep doing those pushups, and you'll eventually get strong enough that those bones will knit themselves!"
How are these equitable? How is "feeling drained" the same as having a handicap or being physically broken? I don't actually want an answer, I don't really care, you're not going to do my community any good if you feel forced to do something you don't see the benefit from, but it's worth remembering that submerging in comfort now usually has a pretty steep cost later. Whether it's not exercising your body because it hurts, or not exercising your emotional intelligence because it's uncomfortable or draining.
This epidemic of de-socialization is artificial, and should be pushed back on by everyone who cares about being a strong, healthy adult in a strong community. It's very basic stuff that got us through ice-ages, mass extinctions, depressions and violent times of the past.
Funny how you go on and on about the importance of connecting with the people around you, but then when someone shows up who is different from you and talks about how they are different, you stop trying to connect and turn incredibly hostile instead.
So much for empathy.
That you feel attacked is what I want here. I am not here to make peace with my own side. I am pissed at my own side. I want to antagonize you all by telling you the hard shit you don't wanna hear.
One of those hard things is you have all broadly gotten to sheltered, too lazy, too self-entitled and abandoned community. Leftists and progressives broadly are rejecting community because it seems like something "midwest white rednecks" have. The same way we let them have the flag and guns. It's dumb, we have to exercise, we have to get stronger, we have to get angry.
Get mad at me. Hate me. WHATEVER THE FUCK IT TAKES TO SAY "I WILL BE STRONGER" so that when you do talk to your neighbor you don't feel so fucking drained you have to escape to your dark hidey hole for a whole day.
It's less that I am defensive and more that I think, based on your comments here, that you are a judgemental self-absorbed asshole who does not understand people nearly as well as you think that you do. ๐
(Also, for the record, although I may be a troll online, I am not a troll in real life. Despite what you seem to believe, I do not actually live in a cave.)