here's the thing: everyone complains about late capitalism and how alienated and isolated we all are. everyone acknowledges this, and reassures each other of this, alone.
you need to get out of yourself, and your head, and your small bubble of one, and you need to go see old friends, or former friends, or people in your social circle who are just meh, or your annoying roommates, or your co-workers, or your former co-workers, or your lame family members, or your lame and bigoted family members, or strangers at a bar, or whomever, and party. meeting people is praxis, strengthening relationships is praxis, making yourself seen and vulnerable to another is praxis. please, guys, go out.
this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.
It's a pretty normal reading actually, it baffles me how anybody could be so upset at a post like that tbh.
I'll just agree to disagree there.
It isn't the responsibility of an audience to have the exact reaction the speaker demands of them.
If your first reaction to somebody being happy and telling other people to be happy and socialize is "um ackschly sweaty..." you should probably do some introspection.
There's that generous interpretation I mentioned. Cherry-picking, really.
People didn't react the way OP (or you) wanted them to. So clearly that wasn't their interpretation. Apparently to you that interpretation is invalid.
I tried sticking up for other people and it's been tiring, even if it only makes the hostility more apparent with each defense of it.
I'm really not interested in going through this song and dance yet again this morning.
It's not invalid, it is unhealthy though.
It's only healthy to thank someone for abrasively delivered unsolicited advice?
I personally went out. I think I came back too soon, especially considering the shitstorm in this thread because I tried sticking up for people that couldn't, wouldn't, or shouldn't for any number of reasons.
Is it "unhealthy" for all of them no matter their reasons?
If they didn't like the post they could have just, you know, scrolled past it and not interact with it. OP wasn't calling out anybody in particular, it's entirely yours and their choice to take the post so seriously.
If that applies, then if the OP's defenders didn't like the replies that the OP received, they could have done the same. It was entirely their choice to take those replies so seriously.
I'm tired of this. I logged back in too soon and this "not hostile" thread harshed my buzz. I better go.