I've been giving myself a hard time lately about being introverted. Especially because of Covid, I've been spending a lot of time alone at home. Is it wrong to be an introvert?
I would not say it is unhealthy, what is important is to know yourself, know how far you can adapt without becoming ill, this would got the same for anyone who is introverted or extroverted.
I would have thought that covid would be a boon to anyone who is a homebird, how has it been hard for you as an introvert?
As an extrovert some aspects of the pandemic have been hard for me but I see a great many benefits, a great many, and do not want to world to return to how it once was at all. It is extremely painful for some individuals and communities. A great many others are suffering because of their suffering.
However, it is patently clear that social conscience, civil society, fellowship are vital and there's no substitutes, state paternalism or confused malthusianism and social darwinism are just not cutting it. Acting in a neighbourly fashion with others in mind instead of insisting on your own self-importance ought to be spotlighted by the pandemic.
The media is poor at this kind of thing now and bizarrely conservatives think this is some sort of communist plot to talk this way now too. Everyone got really stupid somewhere along the line and lost the ability to think things through.
I used to study social policy and read a lot about vaccinations as the one exception to a lot of classical liberal or "individualist" thinking and discussions predating the creation of any kind of welfare state, like prefiguring sewage works (once condemned as communism) or other economic "public goods", like street lighting. So I can see the sorts of lessons that ought to follow developments like pandemics but other studies, or just life, have taught be that the lesson doesnt always follow from the event, whatever it may be.