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This results in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_withdrawal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_withdrawal

• icebraining 11y ago
  I'm not seeing the connection...?
  • venning 11y ago
    My guess: As a problem that I feel threatened by becomes a greater target for action by society, the solutions enacted by society feel like an unnecessary imposition on me--since I don't believe the problem to be real--and the (potentially) building consensus around that problem makes me feel as more of an outsider. Not feeling like a part of a society's approach to that issue may lead me to withdraw from that society in a continued effort to deny the existence of that problem, which is to say not being confronted with society's narrative. As my opinion on a problem diverges from society's, I fit less and less with that society, prompting me to withdraw from it.
    • ionised 11y ago
      > As my opinion on a problem diverges from society's, I fit less and less with that society, prompting me to withdraw from it. Huh. I'm finding myself experiencing this in a range of issues in recent years.