Is it normal that i'm starting to be more socially oriented?

People that seems to think that they are the center of the world and that everything and everyone should act according to their views are starting to irritate me to a point where I'm starting to think that they are the real plague of the Occidental civilization.

I'm starting to think that the ''hyper'' individualism we are living in will be the downfall of our society and that we should start to be acting in a more ''common-well-being '' oriented way.

Is it normal to feel like people should start to view themselves as a part of a group/tribe/nation , whatever you name it instead of the only thing that matters....because, in the end, the sociaty we are happy to be living in is the result of a common goal shared by thousands of individual and not just a handful of self-centered teenagers

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  • Who_Fan4Life

    I agree wholeheartedly and share all of your viewpoints.

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  • 53739

    I don't really understand what you're trying to say

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  • intellectuallychallengedmaybe

    wow.

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  • seekingcleanfriendship

    People are selfish these days very true and everyone looks out for themselves only and relationships can't work because everyone cheats.

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  • disthing

    Humanity has always formed societies; it's been a key to our species' success. So the disintegration of collectivism would be extremely detrimental to us all. We're better together.

    What we have now is a world where most of us aren't restricted to the same extent by our physical surroundings as we were 100 years ago. We can do a lot more with a lot less, and many things which required interaction with people and a lot more time 20 years ago are automated and expedited now. Most of us are also more capable of travel; we can fly almost anywhere in the world, we can drive all over the place, we can take a train across the country - we rely on society to make this happen, but we barely have to interact with society to function. It's the visibility of the people that help keep everything running, make our lives easier that's lacking. It's essentially too easy now to be disconnected from people.

    A consequence of not feeling part of the bigger picture, or feeling like a piece to a different puzzle, coupled with living in a society where it is easy to both ignore others and forget how much we rely on others, is that it breeds irreverence and intolerance. A recipe for riots, for misanthropy, for moral and ethical divergence. A threat to everything that enables us to function as we do right now...

    ...BUT perhaps it is an inevitable result of what makes us ABLE to function as we do right now. The endless pursuit of convenience and automation, of technological advancement, of an easy living, means we remove boundaries that previously necessitated reliance upon friends and family, on our communities rather than faceless corporations or gadgets, on working together for the common good. I wonder if it's possible to have one without the other? Can we have our current lifestyles of mass consumerism and high technology without sacrificing social bonds, a sense of collective identity?

    If we were all cogs in a machine, working together, what would we be working towards if not a life in which we didn't have to work so hard, or even be a cog in a machine?

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  • Tisgranum

    Who says I'm happy to live in this sociaty? Sure it's better than other sociaties but life still sucks.

    I do agree with some of what you said though, if not most or even all of it (just not sure I understand it all). It would be nice if people where more predictable in a sense of right and wrong at least. It would be nice, if I could understand exactly how to act to feel accepted.

    It would suck to be forced into a role that isn't me though.

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  • randomjelly

    ^ ha yes!

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  • flutterhigh

    Go start a fucking blog then.

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