The May 2021 American Perspectives Survey finds that Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their friends less often, and relying less on their friends for personal support.
This hits hard. I just basically ended a friendship because I got tired of trying to “deprogram” a buddy. Like I got him to realize there’s no good in capitalism and that it’s the cause of most of the worlds problems but I just got tired of every time I turn around he is going back to all the other reactionary bullshit. Shit like “Stalin was as bad as Hitler,” “communism doesn’t work cause it always gets corrupted,” and other dumb as fuck shit along with being a racist. I thought I could over time deprogram that shit but more and more I just have come to realize it’s a battle I just don’t have the energy for anymore.
I have only a few close friend left and even that’s debatable. Only one of those I even have in person contact with anymore. Idk how to like, meet people and form new relationships anymore. Work is remote. Don’t have much free time to go socialize nor know what I’d even do. All my hobbies are like at home diy shit. Like I doubt there’s a place people go to like regularly make soap out of recycled animal fats, or ferment sauerkraut, or make diy weights out of concrete or any of the other half dozen weird ass shit I do. lol.
Same here comrade, I long ago got tired of trying to convert my friends and family that have reactionary tendencies. We can spend hours and get somewhere small, but when they spend all their time consuming reactionary media, its like trying to stop a tidal wave by throwing pebbles at it. IE its very effectively reproducing a conservative ideology, and without removing that process, we get nowhere.
+1 on the hobbies too… all my hobbies have become things that I can do on my own, because most of my friends have no time to hang out, or live in other cities.
Capitalism encourages this isolation and alienation in a way that literally goes against human nature, because we need to socialize. Its really sad for all of us.
Perhaps I should just make a dating profile that’s says I just want some friend to hang out with, make soap, ferment foods, discuss communist propaganda, watch old movies, and drink.
This hits hard. I just basically ended a friendship because I got tired of trying to “deprogram” a buddy. Like I got him to realize there’s no good in capitalism and that it’s the cause of most of the worlds problems but I just got tired of every time I turn around he is going back to all the other reactionary bullshit. Shit like “Stalin was as bad as Hitler,” “communism doesn’t work cause it always gets corrupted,” and other dumb as fuck shit along with being a racist. I thought I could over time deprogram that shit but more and more I just have come to realize it’s a battle I just don’t have the energy for anymore.
I have only a few close friend left and even that’s debatable. Only one of those I even have in person contact with anymore. Idk how to like, meet people and form new relationships anymore. Work is remote. Don’t have much free time to go socialize nor know what I’d even do. All my hobbies are like at home diy shit. Like I doubt there’s a place people go to like regularly make soap out of recycled animal fats, or ferment sauerkraut, or make diy weights out of concrete or any of the other half dozen weird ass shit I do. lol.
Same here comrade, I long ago got tired of trying to convert my friends and family that have reactionary tendencies. We can spend hours and get somewhere small, but when they spend all their time consuming reactionary media, its like trying to stop a tidal wave by throwing pebbles at it. IE its very effectively reproducing a conservative ideology, and without removing that process, we get nowhere.
+1 on the hobbies too… all my hobbies have become things that I can do on my own, because most of my friends have no time to hang out, or live in other cities.
Capitalism encourages this isolation and alienation in a way that literally goes against human nature, because we need to socialize. Its really sad for all of us.
Perhaps I should just make a dating profile that’s says I just want some friend to hang out with, make soap, ferment foods, discuss communist propaganda, watch old movies, and drink.
If you make a profile like that, though, you’ll sound cool af and your phone won’t stop pinging.
“Also I still live at my parents house.”
Crickets won’t even chirp
I know that feeling. But it’s so common nowadays that many others will be in the same boat…
You should start a fight club