Thank you. I agree with everything you say. But it's very hard to meet people with the internet being corrupted, and all IRL places of meeting being shut down or having weird rules that result in uncomfortable conversations if I am to speak honestly. I am having a hard time "going along to get along" as most people seem to doing very hard right now. Maybe all this will fade away in a few years and it'll just be a bad memory. I am just shocked, honestly. And I shouldn't be, but I am. There's just so much absolute bullshit happening right now that it's system overload for my brain, and I'm not sure that the solution is to go pet a kitten and play video games all day, you know what I mean?

There's a lot of uncomfortable emotional labor that needs doing in the public square right now, and it seems very few want to do any heavy lifting.