Being treated poorly in every situation and ghosting society

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

Let's be real, the only thing that makes sense is to opt out. In my mind sometimes it's 20 years ago still, back when things were quasi normal, but we can't pretend we have anything resembling a cohesive society now. If I properly anaylze the downfall we're going through as a collective, it's pretty mind-blowing. We have political extremism everywhere or else straight up nihilism. Pick your side, because there doesn't seem to be another. There's no common sense, no courtesy, no middle ground. People are all on the verge of snapping. If you're unlucky enough to have to go out and face the world for whatever reason, you can count on distrust, poor behavior, and little to no respect or decency. And that's just on the surface. If we're that bad observably, then you have to figure it's like an iceberg where 90% of it is unseen. What's actually going on in people's minds? It must be pretty fucking bad.

What I'm realizing ultimately is that there's nothing that people can offer me. My platonic relationships were always shit to non-existent, and so much has changed for the worse in the dating world that pure dysfunction is the only language we all speak now. Aloofness reigns supreme - whoever cares the least, wins. Don't become involved, validation-seeking or emotionally reactive because if you do, it's over for you. A vapid and transactional relationship scene filled with meaningless buzzwords, ghosting, monkey branching and a lack of commitment is what awaits you if you do dare to enter it. Men are pigs, often sadly clinging to right-wing tropes to feel better about the world. Women are walking around with BBLs and fillers to where they don't even look human because they're so pressured to keep up with flawed, social-media based ideals. Who is this realistically serving? Anyone at all?

Everyone's broken now. There's so much "trauma" that it's become a catch-all for everything, and all manner of acting out is justified within that context.

I'm doing my best to make peace with this new reality, and realizing that I'm fully on my own outside of a handful of decent family members, but it's definitely a process. I don't think anyone truly wants to come to terms with things like this, but it is the way it is. I'm tired, boss. And I'm keeping to myself.

 

[Cosmophobic]

I guess I'm lucky that I don't have to go out in the world all that much. When I do I just don't make eye contact and I keep interactions brief. I try to engage when I'm with friends but they often just want to assert their position on something rather than connect or bond over something shared.

You gotta admit though Mr. Duck, we're part of the problem keeping to ourselves like this, aren't we?

 

[sinfonia]

"In those days there was no king in the land; every man did what was right in his own eyes."

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I guess I'm lucky that I don't have to go out in the world all that much. When I do I just don't make eye contact and I keep interactions brief. I try to engage when I'm with friends but they often just want to assert their position on something rather than connect or bond over something shared.

You gotta admit though Mr. Duck, we're part of the problem keeping to ourselves like this, aren't we?

Maybe to some degree, but I think it's important to not be a dick if you can help it. If I can't be some great contributor to society, I try to at least not makes other's lives worse. But I'm not often extended that same courtesy.

I guess there's nothing inherently wrong with laying low and doing your own thing if you find a way to be content with it. With the way things are structured now, if you're out looking for something, I feel like you've already lost.

 

[Cosmophobic]

Maybe to some degree, but I think it's important to not be a dick if you can help it. If I can't be some great contributor to society, I try to at least not makes other's lives worse. But I'm not often extended that same courtesy.

I guess there's nothing inherently wrong with laying low and doing your own thing if you find a way to be content with it. With the way things are structured now, if you're out looking for something, I feel like you've already lost.

I'm not in disagreement on a practical level. It's the way I seem to be conditioned to live my lIfe anyway, whether it brings contentment or not. And not being a dick if I can help it is something I try to always practice. When I start really thinking about it though I find it difficult to know where to draw a line between the world's fucked-upness and my own.

Like you say everyone is broken now. Trauma is a catch-all for everything and all acting out is justified. But I'm broken myself. I have trauma and I act out by withdrawing from the world. In that sense the world is just a reflection of me.

But yeah I don't envy anyone that's out there, heart on their sleeve, hoping to find something real.

 

[Pluto]