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Then that culture is broken. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

• pickyourking 13y ago
  Very much so. Most people would be on the right track if they were to hide from most of what the modern world has to offer.
• eruditely 13y ago
  How convenient for you, chomsky, godel, bertrand russell, dirac, von neumann, montaigne, francis bacon, stoics, and almost all classical great humans to modern great humans had friends and were at least somewhat social give me a break. I know it must be comfortable for you, they're all sick and I'm not so now I don't have to be uncomfortable and try a little.
  • Lost_BiomedE 13y ago
    I am quite sure that if someone told them that they had to drop their work or being in order to be friends, they would have found a different friend. The point is that it is OK to have a different culture, OK to be you, OK to be a light unto yourself. You will find friends, probably more. You do not have to adopt the culture forced upon you if it is not yours.
• keithpeter 13y ago
  I can be in the game and interacting with my neighbours, co-workers, students to try to change things. I can combine with like minded people and try to amplify my influence. I can use the rather tinny megaphone the Internet gives me to spread critical thinking beyond my local environment (through the thin broth of text and argument as opposed to the rich stew of shared action and problem solving). In the process, I may have to compromise some of my thinking but not, I find, the core values. Or I can sit out the game and polish my wellness. I think the former is better for me.