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Again: whether "society" changes is irrelevant.

The point of the conversation is that if /you/ are feeling isolated (and, statistically speaking, YOU ARE) /you/ can affect /you/ by breaking out of your lil self-imposed isolation chamber and doing what normal humans do: communicate.

Will doing so change society? Who gives a hoot? /You'll feel better/.

Frankly these excuses are just that. Excuses. Stop catastrophizing. Start trying. And, while I'm ranting, stop encouraging others to catastrophize too.



>doing what normal humans do: communicate

Communication is a two way street where the other party has no obligation to listen to you when you want to communicate.

How do you communicate where people aren't interested in listening to strangers?


The advice is, simply, "reach out." That's it.

None of the advice requires the other to person do anything, but you're doing a great job of demonstrating that they /do/!

...

Thinking about this thread... I've had another thought.

I wonder if those that're trained to primarily communicate online are trained to do so adversarially in order trigger people. Triggering people is the most effective way to keep talking to someone. Like how they say if your child or pet can't get enough attention out of you they'll do naughty things, because even getting yelled at is... attention.




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