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.
Yep, I'm exactly the same I'm not so fucking bad that I won't talk to people at all and shut myself in forever but like you I completely understand it. If you're surrounded by leftists it is incredibly difficult to even make friends and interact with people.
Forget dating, the normies and generation x'ers in particular just don't understand it's not as simple as get fit and go outside these days, that's hilariously outdated advice. What they're doing is the equivalent of blindfolding somebody and ordering them to walk through a minefield and then they get mad when the person tells them to fuck off and that's not an exaggeration.
The recent Biden announcement of 'silence is complicity' is a great case in point. We're not fucking dumb, we've known this has been the unspoken rule in polite society for some time that unless you actively virtue signal leftist talking points you will be ejected from most circles. Now it's pretty much being mandated that you can't even be politely apolitical anymore which reduces your chances of social interaction even further.
The only hope you really have of finding people to hang out with these days is either organising non-woke events or anti-woke events yourself or going to events generally that are fun to hang out with and you know you're not going to have to deal with endless triggered retards.
I think the response to Hikikomori and similar psychological conditions is possibly the worse thing than the actual condition itself. It's just so fucking callous and one of the reasons why I've taken against right wingers so much these days. They do not offer solutions, it's the feminist attitude of 'hurr durr get over it maaaale' and incredibly easy thing to post when you're happily married and have your comfortable RL safe space.
In defence of some generation X'ers, some do get it or they're not dismissive and they ask real questions about all this, boomers though are largely a lost cause.
Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld & co. made a social commentary about this back in the 90s with Kramer getting bullied by the gays for not wearing the AIDs ribbon during the march.