> The prerequisite being "people feeling fundamentally / by-default at ease in something as primitively simple as just one anothers' company". I don't know why

> The prerequisite being "people feeling fundamentally / by-default at ease in something as primitively simple as just one anothers' company". I don't know why societies lose this and when. This really resonates with me. I've traveled to the Netherlands twice in the past 3 years, spending most of my time outside of Amsterdam. This small, homogeneous place, to me, truly feels different. And I think the default "at-ease" is a big part of it. It didn't feel strange at all that I made 3 Facebook friends from random strangers over there.