It was brought up on my previous post that I had touched on a very critical subject. The destruction of western social life and isolation of modern westerners, especially men. How does this play out overall, what can be done, and to help this fit into this general site's theme, how has this affected gaming?
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Your mileage may vary but I left social media years ago (under a different pseudonym) because I found it had become a wholly negative aspect of life I could do without. From what I know of recent data, people are mostly sticking to social groups of people they know online and offline. It's how they're meeting people, their partners and connecting with others. Meeting strangers is declining, despite what pick-up artists and dating apps may claim and closed socialising is rising.
If you struggle making friends offline, you'll struggle online too. What we likely have is a socialising problem, but how to solve that without going full authoritarian and either controlling people's lives and/or implementing civil or criminal penalties for those who won't comply, I don't know.
Oddly enough, I had a better experience on discussion forums prior to the ones I used being taken over by woke ideologues and those who are drunk with power and increasingly adding more and more banal and vague rules for people to trip up on and earn themselves a permanent ban.
They're narcissists. I've worked with a few, and they work that way for everything. Any authority they can get will be abused. Then they fill the board with all their work so you have to acknowledge them.
The best trick I've learned is to tell jokes. I mostly post memes on Facebook, and no one really knows my politics.
You know, I was watching this episode of an older show called Beastmaster the other day. In it one of the more philosophical characters had pointed out that the one way to counter illusions (IE, illusion magic) was through simple laughter.
There's something about this that seemed... both insightful and prophetic.
"If you struggle making friends offline, you'll struggle online too."
I agree, finding non-NPC people to talk to is hard online and nearly impossible offline. I honestly don't have time for people that constantly go on about leftist talking points. Most of my friends tend to be older men. Men my age either are apathetic about life, like talking to a husk of a person with no opinions or desires of their own or a passionate leftist.