SurrealisticSlumbers
📠girl in an 🎠world
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I was just talking with my dad about how people are becoming sooo wrapped up in their own little worlds and do not seem to possess any ability to interact with others these days... This seems true regardless of generation. I refuse to believe that it is just "our generation."
There's this lady who was renting the house next door to ours; lived there about a couple years, and my dad would help her out with stuff occasionally, like mowing the lawn while she was out of town (she's a single mom to a baby girl). When she moved out, she barely said a word; never came by to say her goodbyes.
Then there's the neighbors across the street. Guy borrowed a leaf blower (I think) from my dad and then when he was done with it, just left it on the front porch without even ringing the doorbell.
I get that we're not living in an episode of Little House on the Prairie, where neighbors are constantly sipping lemonade out on their lawns and chatting with each other, or holding block parties and barn raisings... It just seems like people are socially phobic or at least very awkward and lacking in social etiquette, especially when one lives nearby to each other.
We have always tried to reach out to people who have moved into the neighborhood. My parents are friendly people, but not in a creepy way.
I have (some) hope for the future. Many kids a decade or so younger than I am seem pretty nice, and when you can get them away from their multiple devices (heaven help you), very well-spoken and aware of the world at large. I do think that this upcoming generation, the "Gen Z kids" or whatever you'd like to call them, does have some issues with cultivating "real life" friendships; comprehending the difference between casual friendships (i.e. "friending" someone on a social media platform), and a person who you can call at 2 AM who actually gives a shit. [This is one of the main reasons I don't have Facebook, much less a smartphone. You will need to pry my five-year-old LG Octane from my cold, dead fingers before I "upgrade."]
Is humanity becoming more "autistic"/"schizoid" (NB: these terms not necessarily used here in a clinical sense) as we "progress" into the artificialities of a techno-centric reality?
I welcome y'all's opinions!
There's this lady who was renting the house next door to ours; lived there about a couple years, and my dad would help her out with stuff occasionally, like mowing the lawn while she was out of town (she's a single mom to a baby girl). When she moved out, she barely said a word; never came by to say her goodbyes.
Then there's the neighbors across the street. Guy borrowed a leaf blower (I think) from my dad and then when he was done with it, just left it on the front porch without even ringing the doorbell.
I get that we're not living in an episode of Little House on the Prairie, where neighbors are constantly sipping lemonade out on their lawns and chatting with each other, or holding block parties and barn raisings... It just seems like people are socially phobic or at least very awkward and lacking in social etiquette, especially when one lives nearby to each other.
We have always tried to reach out to people who have moved into the neighborhood. My parents are friendly people, but not in a creepy way.
I have (some) hope for the future. Many kids a decade or so younger than I am seem pretty nice, and when you can get them away from their multiple devices (heaven help you), very well-spoken and aware of the world at large. I do think that this upcoming generation, the "Gen Z kids" or whatever you'd like to call them, does have some issues with cultivating "real life" friendships; comprehending the difference between casual friendships (i.e. "friending" someone on a social media platform), and a person who you can call at 2 AM who actually gives a shit. [This is one of the main reasons I don't have Facebook, much less a smartphone. You will need to pry my five-year-old LG Octane from my cold, dead fingers before I "upgrade."]
Is humanity becoming more "autistic"/"schizoid" (NB: these terms not necessarily used here in a clinical sense) as we "progress" into the artificialities of a techno-centric reality?
I welcome y'all's opinions!