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0 pointsalexashka9y ago0 comments

These are just the pains of growing up.

It's like wishing there was no bullying in school - human nature isn't going to change anytime soon and by learning to deal with dickheads, you learn a valuable lesson or two.

As for culture - you have to wrap your head around the average IQ of an American being 100. 100 is really, really dumb.

You probably don't talk to anyone twice as smart as the average person on a regular basis - he/she won't be able to relate to you and vice versa.

But even so, it just doesn't matter - because culture or society, doesn't owe you anything. Wishing it was different is a fool's game - there are pockets in every city that you'll feel very at home with. Once you find them, you'll look back on wishing to change society as madness - you're the highly intelligent weird-o that needs a rare environment to thrive, most people are fine, they bicker until their dying breath just fine :)

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agumonkey9y ago

I wouldn't mention it if I didn't hear it in others voices. Be it sexuality, love, education, society, work, celebrity... so many ideas get into our heads, so many of us get sidetracked.

And I don't want problems to go away, just to get them outside of our heads, instead of self alienation by lack of understanding of what is happening and if or not you're alone in this case (my belief: you're often not).

I also believe that older social groups had a more balanced structure where people would share more and listen more rather than western cultures where it's dealt with by outsourcing growing into institutions.

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