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you need to go out (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious how many people saw that as a personal attack.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And how many people in the following days thought up strange hypotheticals. "Well what if I'm wheelchair bound and I live on the first floor and the people that help me move are on vacation and this is the only time I'm actually staying indoors?".

There was even a minor follow-up session where people argued the logout emoji was harmful lol

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

This is literally violence against me.