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x'ers in particular just don't understand it's not as simple as get fit and go outside these days, that's hilariously outdated advice.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.
I was talking to a girl, this week - she randomly decides to mention that she is reading Hebrew apocalyptic texts, and that she was a practicing Wiccan at one point…
I respond with something like “Oh, ok, that’s interesting”, and try my best to steer the conversation back to some sort of normality…
She decides that isn’t good enough, explodes at me and cuts off all contact.
It had been going fine before that.
People are fucking weird. Millennial women perhaps especially (no offense to those here who read this)…
Yes, I probably dodged a bullet, but also… Doesn’t feel great, you know?
Wasted time and effort, if nothing else…
I would note, there was zero indication that this would be the case, and zero prompting from my end…
She seemed a bit odd, maybe, and certainly a bit insecure, but this was… Very out of the blue.
Almost like she had already decided she didn’t really like me, and just wanted to throw some weird shit into the conversation to test my response, and have an excuse to cut me out of her life…
But who knows. I just don’t know.
But regardless it has put me off even wanting to converse with women online for a while, lol…
This wasn’t a Tinder date, either. It was someone I had something “in common” with.
But fuck if it didn’t go from “Fine” to “complete fucking disaster” extremely quickly…
sigh
Unfortunately this happens and I've had it happen to me before as well. Probably is a bit of a shit test and yes depending on what sort of millennial woman you're dealing with they're often insecure as fuck. If it's any comfort, I've had similar things happen to me and it's a same situation where you're just chatting casually and all of a sudden URGABURGABLURGA! In the end it was me that decided to break off contact because I'm not somebody who puts up with that sort of thing, act normal or fuck off is my attitude.
If there's one thing I've learned about normies and people in general it's the ones who look like they've got their shit together that you've got to be the most wary of. They're lizards wearing the skins of humans. Covid was very revealing for me in this aspect because when all the night life and pubs were shut down people were all having mental breakdowns over it. Really awkward for somebody like me that has actual hobbies and shit to do because I barely noticed.
Yeah, I mean in this case, to play Devil’s Advocate for a sec, I wonder if it might well be that I had “fulfilled my usefulness” to her…
Because I had helped her out with something, over the previous weeks (nothing financial, she just needed a confidence boost for job interviews) - that finished up two days ago (i.e. she no longer needed it), and all was swell until the next day, when it got real bad, real quick…
Which is partly why this sucks, because I feel used…
I don’t know if that was it, of course, because she gave no indication, but it may well be…
Timing lines up, at least.
I dunno. She said and did some really weird things yesterday, and I tried to respond as cautiously and kindly as I could, but as you say, URGABLURGA!
But it’s not that which annoys me - it’s the sudden, without warning, ghosting and blocking everywhere…
Because then it’s like, “The fuck did I do? In no way did I deserve that.”
Eugh…