| snyps said: My brother hung himself when I was thirteen. He was fifteen. There is something seriously fucked up in the way humans fail to connect this day and age. God help me I want to find an answer to help people find connections. |
I think it's the way society is set up, and the way we're trending. We're isolating more and more, families are getting smaller, more single parents going it alone and less intergenerational households, more superficial Facebook friends and fewer real friends you can count on and even fewer best friends you can truly confide in and connect to, less willingness to be vulnerable around one another and more worship of the tough guy badass persona. Communities aren't really much of a thing anymore, as people tend to be more connected to strangers online than the people around them in their neighborhood. Meanwhile we have to work more and more to get by, having less time for what makes all that work worthwhile, and we're working for corporations that fail to appreciate the value of the human element. Obviously none of this speaks for everyone, but it's hard for anyone to avoid all of it.
We as humans just weren't meant for this psychologically. We still have the minds of hunter gatherer tribes as we try to face an industrial society moving into a post-industrial technological one. We're happiest when we have a small group of people to face all the challenges of life with together, something like the villages of old where everyone knew each other and everyone was connected to everyone. But most of us are lucky to have anyone at all, maybe a life partner if we can find one, a kid if we can afford it, parents if they're still alive and not estranged from you, brothers and sisters if they haven't moved too far away, maybe one real friend that you could tell anything. But too many people don't even have that. Ronnie Edwards didn't. And society seems to prefer it that way.
