Nothing particularly insightful, but… It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that this phenom is becoming more common…
Like, I’ve had some really bad stuff happen this week, because I let the wrong person into my life (again), but beyond that… Even just “going out into the world” can be so fucking hostile, it’s really no surprise people retreat like that…
“Social dysfunction” isn’t as obvious where I am as it might be elsewhere. Certainly, you don’t really see it, but have a conversation with the wrong person, or even just sit and observe long enough, and it becomes readily apparent that we’ve become a wider society of petty hostility and just general… Unpleasantness.
Places like NYC, Sydney and arguably Tokyo were always like this, but it’s largely “leaked” far beyond that now. Everyone feels like they’re out to get each other, or at each other’s throats, and that if you don’t play along with the odd beliefs of the person you are talking to? They might just decide to do something really nasty…
A 95-year old with dementia was tasered to death in a nursing home in Sydney a week ago (“She was carrying a knife!”). Just yesterday, a huge fire engulfed a massive historic building in Sydney, and no one put it out, until it was a raging inferno enough to destroy the entire thing (the circumstances of all that are very weird)…
Then there has been escalating brawls and attacks on police in several QLD cities this week.
It all feels… Increasingly hostile. And this is in Australia… “Commie shithole” aside, some of these things are quite unheard of…
So… Filtering this down into “ordinary interactions”, where people have become so hypersensitive and hostile about every disagreement, every little thing… It’s no wonder, honestly, that some young men have decided “Fuck this, why the fuck should I even bother anymore?”
I know I feel that way about “friendship” at this point, so for me, that’s pretty damn understandable…
Just my 10c.
Yeah. I actually really like people. But I don’t particularly like “clubbing” and the like…
Nonetheless, I would have happily done the “Go to pub and drink” thing, tonight, but yeah, like you said, alcohol as coping…
In the end, though, I didn’t really have a choice. Tonight should have been a work night (i.e. working on projects and study. Nothing paid), but I just…
Physically can’t manage that rn. Oh well.
Your posting seems ok to me. 🙂
At least you’re not claiming to be a Wiccan artist turned Catholic wannabe psychotherapist (yes, really), anyway! 😂
Honestly, I’m just glad to have conversations that aren’t about ChatGPT or Netflix, because apart from psycho witch chick, that’s pretty much all anyone else wants to talk about now…
sigh
I met a stoner on Wednesday who openly admitted that she cheated her way to an HD… Possibly partly by using ChatGPT, but mostly just by not doing the work, and looking up the answers…
As someone who had legitimately put effort into the same subject, but who had to drop it (life…), that didn’t exactly assist my faith in society, I’ll say that much.