I don’t know about the world or HN, but what I personally experience is that I am loosing touch with my few very close friends. Way too often our conversations

I don’t know about the world or HN, but what I personally experience is that I am loosing touch with my few very close friends. Way too often our conversations end up in politically related debates and it negatively affects relationships. The only way to stay out of it, is to not talk about current happenings at all, because as soon as somehow recent events or news surface, it almost inadvertently leads to politics, but its very difficult to be close friends with someone and yet never talk about things the surround us on a day to day basis. It is almost as if language itself became embedded with political narrative.