• o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It is the work of emotionally warped people who have learned to fear sincerity as somehow “awkward.”

    In my personal experience with this, it’s a result of parental neglect and lack of community in the imperial core. The extreme alienation means that if there’s no sincerity at home, children are unlikely to encounter enough of it elsewhere in order to develop it themselves in a healthy way.

    • EstreyaZR@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      3 days ago

      Not only that, but I always notice how peers of mine dont even know how to respond anymore without some unconcious level of sarcasm / cynicism; covering the numbness we experience in social settings. When we break out of it, and begin to feel, most of us are stunned and at a loss of words.

      I hope that I’m just too young, and we begin to have some level of social cohesion, instead of hopping between asthetics we would like to call ours. I think, as a generation, we have become too uncertain to have our own perception, instead prefering to live in the hyperreal.

      (I don’t want to say this from a doomer perspective, but more as my confused two cents from the main european vassal state.)