• oce 🐆
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    10 months ago

    Everything is about money, not about having an actual human experience.

    Human experience is still there, everywhere. You have to make the effort to get out of your burrow and do things outside with physical people.

    • PorkRollWobbly
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      6610 months ago

      It’s hard to make an effort when all your energy goes into survival. Wasn’t the point of “civilization” to not have to worry about all of that?

      • oce 🐆
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        710 months ago

        Yes it should, but modernity also made us less reliant on the group and I think it made use more introvert and more social risk averse. This is something that can be worked on with reasonable cost.

        • LEX
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          5310 months ago

          Alienation is a product of Capitalism, not ‘modernity.’

      • oce 🐆
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        -110 months ago

        Your local gardening association should have shovels.

      • @Mir@lemmy.ml
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        -110 months ago

        What do you mean by that? Go find a sport/hobby. Clubs aren’t expensive at all.

        • @RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
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          610 months ago

          Human experience isn’t just hanging out with other people. It includes going to other places, experiencing what the world has to offer. You can’t do much of that, if any, when you’re living paycheck to paycheck like most people.

          • oce 🐆
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            110 months ago

            In social countries, they give you money for hobbies if you have low salaries.

      • oce 🐆
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        -210 months ago

        Are non-profit associations rare in your place? They are very present around me, all my hobbies are covered.

      • oce 🐆
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        410 months ago

        Try to find an association near your place, sports, arts, gardening, nature exploration, table top games, whatever you like.

      • @rurb@lemmy.ml
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        210 months ago

        As a default, a spouse and kids will rope you into decades of regular social interaction.

    • TehPers
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      110 months ago

      I think this varies from place to place. In some places, I’ve definitely felt like going out and interacting with physical people was too dangerous, since the culture was along the lines of “everyone for themselves” and “don’t trust anyone”. That being said, I’ve also lived in places where the people around me were extremely friendly, so for many people that opportunity still does exist.

      For the people who feel like going out and interacting with strangers is dangerous, I think it might help to go to specific places where the kinds of people you want to meet would also go to (and the kinds of people you want to avoid wouldn’t go to), although that can be hard to find.