The thing with sketch like that, is they reflect shit that does happen in real life. I've been on public transit enough to know from my own lived experience people can be disgusting.
The problem I see with the camping women, and a lot of people is that they seem to think that a romantic partner will fix loneliness. Having a few good friends does a person good. But making good friends is hard. And by the time folks have dealt with their day to day obligations they often do not have the capacity to put in the energy it takes to make good friends.
I also personally distrust most of the lives that people put on display for profit.
As to loneliness in general, it's def something that's a serious problem and the pandemic and it's isolation didn't help. Not just the isolation but the way simple things turned into politics. How much people lashed out at each other. (I have a friend whose immune compromised and the amount of bs she gets for wearing a mask is ridicules.) The politics that came out of it def created another us vs them axis to divide people on and it still exists.
The first, and not so nice, part probably happens quite a lot, but the second part where they get shown up, not so much. That's the part you wish would happen more often because it teaches better behaviour.
I agree, it's getting harder and harder to make friends. I would even say that the 24hr working environment adds to this, because quite often your work hours will be very different to other people's so you can't even find time to meet up with friends you do have.
Of late everything seems to just create more divide between people. On social media it's easy to find yourself in echo chambers and this cuts you off from other viewpoints making it easier to view anyone with differing opinions or circumstances as the enemy.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. There is still a lot of bitterness from that period even years later. It's shocking how easy it was for so many people to just drop their compassion.
Oh yeah, the whole "always on the clock" thing is horrible. I'm glad my home country(Canada) actuly made it so that work places can't expect people to respond to work stuff outside of work hours unless they are paid to be on call.
The echo chambers also make people more extreme, like, if you don't agree 10000% you're the bad guy. Even if your view is actually 80% in line with theirs. So instead of anyone being resonable you got two extremes that see each other as demons. And while some issues def have a good side and a bad side it leaves no space for nuance.
There's a bitter part of me that's just like, if it falls down so fast, was it ever really compassion or was it just politeness?
Also thank ya for the top commenter vote! :D
Is that bitterness or are you genuinely onto something?
I recently listened to a psychologist who said we normally only tend to form cohesiveness in groups of up to about 100 (I think that was the number he gave) so when we started to form larger societies in order to keep everyone working together we needed a shared religion, enemy or blood. So if we need a common cause, maybe we unconsciously look for an enemy ourselves.
So true. And if you believe this then you must also believe all this other stuff that we've decided believers of that also believe! You agree with something on the left you must believe all the left wing stuff and if you believe something on the right then you are completely right wing. Never mind that 80% of people are somewhere in the middle.
Not my doing. They got there before me. ;D
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