No matter how alone anyone feels at any given time, they are not. No matter how original and fantastic you imagine your feelings and thoughts to be – they are not. Someone has felt it, someone has thought it, and someone has gotten offended by it sometime in the past.
Many times I have come across a gathering of people, online or otherwise, and thought, “maybe this could be where I belong?”, but then I hang out for a bit. Then I look deeper and I see hierarchies, infighting, cliques, people who – even amongst a group who hold a demonstrably underrepresented way of thinking – feel that they are righter than all these other right people that they sought community with not too far in the distant past. “You can't just think what I think, you have to think what I think, EXACTLY the way that I think it, and present yourself exactly the way I would like you to be”, they seem to say with every condescending forum post. Is this what becomes of a group of people when they move from “I don't know” to “I don't know and you don't either”? Or maybe I just hate everyone in the world, as I have always suspected.
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