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I genuinely feel like one part of the heaviness and sadness I experience at times is having to interact with so many people that I don't know, in a way that is so uncaring and stifled. When your fellow humans might as well be robots and vending machines, you treat eachother accordingly. It all comes together; corporate culture, ideas of professionalism, stress, being overworked. So instead of time to talk, a warm smile, enthusiasm, getting to know eachother as regulars, being curious about one another, there are these walls. People become replaceable. I think I wasn't meant to engage with the world this way, I think I and most others were made to engage with people we know and care about or get to know easily whenever we interact with employees. The employees weren't just nameless figures quietly serving you, they used to be your family, your neighbors, your family friends who worked there. It's becoming increasingly harder to build relationships between customers and employees, but the same goes for relationships between employees working for a big employer, where you never or barely see most people you have to work with.
I don't know, to me it produces some sort of mental health damage when most of my interactions are being so devoid of humanity and extraction/transaction focused, because you get treated like that in return, and it makes me feel unreal, alien; unseen, uncared for. It feels deeply unnatural in some ways. Not to mention there is no compassion for mistakes and deviation like this.
And even online, it really doesn't work for me to communicate with others passively via feeds.
Offline, if you sat together, and your friend (who worded it themselves and did not just hold up someone else's thoughts uncritically) referenced wrong info or said something ignorant, you could challenge them respectfully and have a true dialogue. You have to look at eachother and you're surrounded by people you are meaningful to, which is reflected in the discussion. They don't want to cause a fight and neither do you, and they don't want to hurt you with some mean quip for approval from others (and if they do, they aren't a great friend).
Meanwhile if you follow someone and they share some stupid stuff, there's nothing productive you can do about it. You cannot engage with the post because then strangers neither of you follow are gonna jump in (even worse: OP of the stupid post putting you on blast for likes + ratio); sending them a message about it seems weird because they did not specifically direct it to you to have a dialogue about it. It was just sent into the void to be perceived by whoever fleetingly, and that's it. There seems to be barely any incentive to be respectful since they barely or not know you at all, or they don't have to look in your face irl while engaging. So it's just a headache ever trying to engage with a bullshit post, even worse when people shame others for writing a longer reply.
Feeds suck. Recommended posts suck. Viral posts and videos suck because it's not gonna go viral most of the time if it doesn't feature inflammatory and plain wrong shit meant to divide and enrage and spread conspiracies and anti-intellectualism. Not even gonna get into the explosion of anti-feminist tradwife sentiments everywhere. I am over the fact that people glance for 3 seconds at something edgy or smart-sounding and share it immediately, and it is off-limits (or going to cause you more grief) if you are feeling genuine about it and not hyperironically detached. "It's not that deep" is not shielding you from me thinking you are a shithead for posting that and that you would take it back if we had a discussion irl about it.
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