>>>I'm not sure if this is universally a bad or good thing. One of the side-effects of hanging out with physically-proximate but non-optimized-personality peop

>>>I'm not sure if this is universally a bad or good thing. One of the side-effects of hanging out with physically-proximate but non-optimized-personality people is that you learn to compromise. You learn to build productive relationships despite differences in temperament and interests. I think that is largely lost in the digital age. It's part of why we see such uncompromising partisanship in political movements. People are so accustomed to interacting with exactly the sort of opinions/viewpoints they want to experience online that they don't know how to handle anything contrarian when they are in meat-space.