Yeah, it was interesting to read people's unfiltered narcissism sometimes. Just pages and pages of journal entries about how they were a genius and their agonizing over every little social interaction and relationship in their life. That had zero traffic of commentary.
I never ever understood any of it. But it was scary to realize some people really do think of their life as a novel and they are the main character struggling to some liberation or something.
All my blogs were just random nonsense or short fictional pieces. I could never take the 'dear diary' stuff seriously.
Most of my friends would just post random funny links or talk about something they did that day and if it was cool or not. I never had the privilege of socializing with people who were writing autobiographical novels on the internet.
dude none of that exists where i live. there are no dive bars. sounds like you live in some rustbelt place where rent is dirt cheap.
the working stiffs don't live here. they commute to here from 2 hours away. they can't afford the housing prices. they also think i'm a douchebag because I can afford the housing prices and I go to fancy douche bars. the bartenders and waitstaff all commute in from places 2 hours away. my dog walker commutes in from 2 hours away, etc.
and i'm not going to move 2 hours away. I love my job and I love being 15m from my office.
That's every bar. Every hobby group. There are no people here who aren't upper class.
Technically I am upper class too. I just wasn't born into it, so I'm not a whiny bitch about my life. I think it's great. I don't think my life is a tragedy because I don't own two vacation homes and a yacht.
I hate punks. Here they are all whiny entitled rich trust fund kids who think you're a douche for having to work a job that pays a living wage while they cosplay as poor waiting for their trust funds to mature. They also love to lecture you about anarchism and how you are oppressed because you don't have tattoos and piercings. I also hate punk music, it's boring and whiny.
I mean, I would remove that comment too. Mostly because I hate gender war bullshit about 'who has it worse'. It's never productive in any meaningful way.
People typically aren't going to want ot be a part of a 'fair' community.
They are going to be a part of one that protects and promotes their beliefs and biases and keeps out the riff raff who don't agree with them.
Like you're not going to run a feminist community and allow men's rights articles to be posted. Because your community is about promoting women's issues.
A community about 'everyone's rights' is just going to be a pissing contest because people are going to dogpile about their 'side'.
I'm sick of listening to people complain about their lives. They hate their jobs, they hate their spouses, they hate their friends. They are unfulfilled and unhappy and IF ONLY THEY WERE RICH everything would be magically wonderful. The past few years, now everyone talks about how 'oppressed' they are because of their identity too. I've met so many single women doctors who just go on for an hour about how 'oppressed' they are because they only make $480K/yr instead of the 500K their married male colleague does... and how if only they made more they'd never have to fly coach again! Or how expensive and awful their kids private education is, or how their wife prevents them from buying that Raptor truck they really want, because some overpriced performance vehicle will magically fix their shitty lifestyle habits and social relationships...
Oh, and as a single white guy, they love to lecture me on how amazing and awesome and rich and perfect my life must be. Because apparently I have 'no responsibilities lots of free time and money and freedom and can fuck whomever i want whenever i want'. Right...
Do they ever ask me how my life is? No, of course not. I'm just a placeholder for their weird escapist fantasy they have because they hate their own lives so much. And if I start mentioning any basic facts about my life, they think I'm whining or 'bitter' or something because my life is and was far less privileged than theirs.
This is like 90% of my dates, and other casual social interactions with new people. 10 years ago it wasn't like this. People used to ask me questions and interact with me... now they just lecture me about how their life is terrible and mine is better than theirs and I'm a jerk because of it. I miss talking to people about books, or movies, or hobbies.
Hence I really have stopped going out and interacting with people like I used to. At least with my existing friends I can tell them about events in my life that are good or bad without them acting like I'm an asshole. The last date I went on I told my date about the book I was reading and she looked at me like I was a jerk and then immediately started complaining about how her ex read books and was a douchebag and she doesn't like douchy people who read a lot...
I feel like people no longer interact generally. I notice even when I'm out and hearing other people's conversations they sort or talk at each other in quips rather than actually acknowledge or exchange anything substantial. It's been years since I've had like an actual conversation with a stranger that showed genuine interest.
When I was about 20 in college I learned that saying shit like 'the government' is stupid. Because there is no 'the government'.
There are agencies, institutions, and individuals in the government. All with varying levels of competence and corruption and incentives. Some of them are amazing, others are really shitty. Just like people or companies or anything. There are also multiple levels of government and so many people are angry at the feds over property taxes which has nothing to do with the feds.
And I learned to avoid interacting with people who think in massive generalized terms about anything, because they tend to be very emotional and very irrational.
you don't have to be far right for them to want to consider you a nazi or punch you. you just have to be less extremist than they are, or not the same flavor of anarchist/socialist/communist.
No.