You and all of the replies saying some variation of "me too" mean that it's not just me.
I, too, am having trouble caring about things (and people) I used to care about.
I think the word I would use is "alienation".
I used to have a wider circle of people I considered friends, but now I consider them just acquaintances. It turns out we have very different values, and that I don't have much in common with them - at least, not much that I think of as important. I now know which way they'll blow in the face of absurd fear-mongering and a (to me very obvious) propaganda campaign to demonize and scapegoat a subgroup of people, and have also discovered that when the chips are down, they don't actually share my commitment to thing like civil liberties and questioning authority. I've lost my respect for them. I'm not even mad...just disappointed and utterly alienated. Some of them keep inviting me to things and I'm like, why would I want to go? I don't have anything in common with you.
I, too, used to enjoy live performances and museums, but now feel alienated from most of those places too. I saw how quick they were to exclude people on the basis of absolutely nothing but fear-mongering and virtue-signalling. Someone recently invited me to a show that I might have liked, at a venue I used to patronize, and my reaction was just, why would I want to go there? They banned me last year, for no good reason. Why would I choose to go where people like me were excluded?
I used to volunteer at a nonprofit, but they had a volunteer jab mandate for a while. Why would I want to help them, if that was their attitude?
I have a small circle of friends left, and there are local businesses that never went along with the nonsense (or at least complied only minimally to the extent necessary to stay open), which I still frequent.
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:20 pm (UTC)You and all of the replies saying some variation of "me too" mean that it's not just me.
I, too, am having trouble caring about things (and people) I used to care about.
I think the word I would use is "alienation".
I used to have a wider circle of people I considered friends, but now I consider them just acquaintances. It turns out we have very different values, and that I don't have much in common with them - at least, not much that I think of as important. I now know which way they'll blow in the face of absurd fear-mongering and a (to me very obvious) propaganda campaign to demonize and scapegoat a subgroup of people, and have also discovered that when the chips are down, they don't actually share my commitment to thing like civil liberties and questioning authority. I've lost my respect for them. I'm not even mad...just disappointed and utterly alienated. Some of them keep inviting me to things and I'm like, why would I want to go? I don't have anything in common with you.
I, too, used to enjoy live performances and museums, but now feel alienated from most of those places too. I saw how quick they were to exclude people on the basis of absolutely nothing but fear-mongering and virtue-signalling. Someone recently invited me to a show that I might have liked, at a venue I used to patronize, and my reaction was just, why would I want to go there? They banned me last year, for no good reason. Why would I choose to go where people like me were excluded?
I used to volunteer at a nonprofit, but they had a volunteer jab mandate for a while. Why would I want to help them, if that was their attitude?
I have a small circle of friends left, and there are local businesses that never went along with the nonsense (or at least complied only minimally to the extent necessary to stay open), which I still frequent.
But I just feel alienated from much of society.
I'm trying to figure out where to go from here.