here’s the thing: everyone complains about late capitalism and how alienated and isolated we all are. everyone acknowledges this, and reassures each other of this, alone.
you need to get out of yourself, and your head, and your small bubble of one, and you need to go see old friends, or former friends, or people in your social circle who are just meh, or your annoying roommates, or your co-workers, or your former co-workers, or your lame family members, or your lame and bigoted family members, or strangers at a bar, or whomever, and party. meeting people is praxis, strengthening relationships is praxis, making yourself seen and vulnerable to another is praxis. please, guys, go out.
this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.
genuinely suprised at the reaction to this post
obviously capitalist alienation isn’t our faults individually and is a societal problem and we shouldn’t be irresponsible about covid but you all are proving their point in a way jesus christ
exactly, you worded that well. i don’t feel like op had any ill intentions or posted this in bad faith though so to see everyone say “fuck you” to them seems very gross and mean.
this post is making a lot of things about the users of this site make sense
I mean, as an immunocompromised individual, I just spent the third year of my life not being able to do anything so this post kinda sucks shit for me
there’s no controlling how others are about covid. as a society we are being irresponsible about covid and going out and socializing is accepting that you will almost certainly get it at some point in your life, most likely multiple times. whether or not that is personally devastating enough to you to keep you inside is obviously gonna be individual
hexbear commenters and reading innocuous, well-intentioned posts as personal attacks in the most uncharitable way possible to air your grievances. name a better duo
no i am going to hide inside my room all day listening to podcasts and playing video games i don’t like and then acting shocked when i hate myself
This site went from struggling about cats being outside to struggling about oneself being outside
Do that but also, you know, be careful wrt the ongoing mass disabling global pandemic
thats what the internet is for
shit not being in person doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not REAL
Online interaction will never replace IRL interactions in my opinion, at least not for me. You lose out on a lot of intimacy when communicating online, even if it’s a video call.
:yes-chad:
life is bad enough without losing the ability to smell or breathe
hey, could you stop doing this? this really sucks. there’s immunocompromised comrades on this site and people like you have made this entire pandemic hell for us.
