Covid showed us half of Americans are selfish assholes. I don't want to be around them any more than I have to.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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I stay inside because people in my community are increasingly hostile and aggressive toward me for no good reason as far as I can tell.
Shits expensive, and I don’t mind hanging in whatever I feel like. What’s the point of spending 45-70% on housing if I am only using it 30% of the time?
This is detrimental to community, especially community organizing against fascism.
Like it or not, community is shown to improve mental health.
I’ve been listening to a lot of indigenous teachings on community. It’s really impactful.
The lack of communal spaces has also had a devastating effect on young adults. Young people are increasingly lonely and isolated, and I think that makes them 1000% more susceptible to pipelines that lead them to being incels and/or MAGA idiots. Even if they don’t do that, it’s caused depression/anxiety rates to skyrocket and people don’t know how to have normal relationships with their peers, be it romantic or platonic. People don’t know how to support each other meaningfully. Online social interactions are a shit substitute for real life relationships.
I completely agree with all of your points. It’s really hard to break out of the belief that it’s far more comfortable at home, that other people are scary, that you don’t know how to meet people, etc., but you know what’s more scary?
Being absolutely and utterly alone.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We cannot thrive and become whole humans like this. We cannot save ourselves from tyranny like this. Making a bunch of comments online is not making real change out there.
I really hope we can figure out how to bring back third spaces/the commons, and soon.
Agreed. We should go to community functions like picnics and swimming. Forget that religion leading to the current racist and murderous outcomes ever exited. As an example the current misleader of the boundworlds trumpfus was instated thanks to the religious zealots of the evangelical Christian church. Because of course that's what trumpfus is all about. They get some of the blame, not all of it. There were capitalist assholes purchasing votes too.