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What's happened is that a lot of things that used to require human interaction are now human-interaction-optional. We have choices that didn't before. Many peop
by Kalium 11y ago
What's happened is that a lot of things that used to require human interaction are now human-interaction-optional. We have choices that didn't before. Many people seem hellbent on not considering the possibility that these mandatory interactions were not desirable for many people.
I don't want a conversation with the bank teller. I just want my cash so I can go do something that I actually do want to do. Maybe I want to be entertained and get sloppy drunk in my PJs instead of going to the theater. It turns out I'm not even slightly alone. A lot of us seem to prefer our "less human" lives.
Perhaps we find them more humane.
- tsotha 11y agoThat's the way I feel too. I understand why extroverts want to have people around to chat with, but for me all that interaction just exhausting. I don't go to the theater any more and do all my shopping online. I'm happier for it, too.
- Kalium 11y agoI get the sense that the extroverts are confused by the revelation that we're not all extroverts. They feel something has been "lost" now that we have the choice to avoid being nonconsensual extroverts. And that said choice is exercised on a regular basis.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoThat's not it - at least, not for me. I'm an introvert, too.
- Kalium 11y agoWell, I feel like I've been liberated from coerced interpersonal interaction. Others paint this as being disconnected from my community. Maybe they define community differently. I don't consider the random set of people within a half-mile of my apartment to be my community in any kind of deep and meaningful way.