Don't get me wrong. I enjoy socializing more than anything in the world.
Small talk with a complete stranger cutting my hair feels very awkward though. We're not friends, have nothing in common, and I typically have nothing to say to him. Which means it's a considerable and awkward effort to keep a conversation going.
A cashier who asks "Did you find everything alright" because she gets fired if she doesn't also feels like talking to a hostage. That's a different thing, but it is also often cited as "human contact" by people, and that is very alien to me.
> But your brain chemistry is evolved to seek it as a survival mechanism, is all I’m saying
Shush it with your insightful biochemistry-evolution talk, just nod in agreement to the proponents who would rather make everyone live in the same bleak, isolating life of meaningless distraction that they have.
They have all that sweet VC money and we're all here to sell our apps!
>I have not set foot in a grocery store in years. Nevermore will I bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils and fluorescent lights sear my eyeballs and sappy love songs torture my ears.
We're turning into a reclusive, anti-social, afraid of each other, society because those are the types that get funding.
Shakespeare was a fortune teller:
>And private in his chamber pens himself,
>Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
>And makes himself an artificial night.
>Black and portentous must this humor prove
>Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
I don't want to spend all of my time alone, staring at one display or another, interacting with code or algorithm-selected content.
Thank you for being one of the sane ones that sees the absurdity of it!
