This is a really difficult issue that is challenging for me these last few years. I also never knew any of my neighbors when living in rental apartments, especially not in the city. I bought my first house 3 years ago and I will say I actually do know all of the people in the 7 houses closest to my house: their names, a bit about them like what their career is/was, where they’ve lived. I chat with them when I see them outside like when doing yard work. My next door neighbor has beehives in his yard and brings me honey regularly, and both him and another have shoveled my sidewalk of snow with their snowplows. I in turn have collected mail for many of them when they’ve been out of town. So that’s definitely something. I don’t talk to them about any politics or religion or anything controversial though, and I think that’s important.
It is nearly impossible to make new friends after 30 though. Some say this is why some people in the rich west have kids: because you have to make your own new friends from scratch, as there is no other way 😆
The early enthusiasm for the internet was grounded in the supposition that the new digital analogues to social life, culture, commerce, etc. would supplement their solid-life counterparts. Not replace them.
It is sobering to review the last twenty years and come to realize that the things we truly value aren't what we imagined they were.
I live in an apartment building where everyone knows each other. We go to the pub together, to the Christmas Do together, to funerals together. But no one under 40 comes with us. It's like everyone forgot how communities work in 1994 when Netscape Navigator came out.
This is so neat! It's definitely not common. I don't even know any of my neighbors let alone hang out with them. But interesting about the age thing...a sign of the times.
We had our Daughter when we were young so we lived in family housing. It was the best experience any of us could have had. Our daughter learned three languages just by playing with her friends. We got together constantly and had dinners together. We were friends BEFORE any of us were cool 😆
And that’s just it: Some people seem to operate under the illusion that money = cool. It very much does not. And, frankly, celebrities who do that in the VR world have just found yet another layer to insulate themselves from us. And that makes them a layer less cool too.
The world is tactile. Some of our deepest understandings come from kinetic learning. When we lose that, we become ignorant to the basic fundamental human experiences which we don’t even realize we’ve lost.
This is a really difficult issue that is challenging for me these last few years. I also never knew any of my neighbors when living in rental apartments, especially not in the city. I bought my first house 3 years ago and I will say I actually do know all of the people in the 7 houses closest to my house: their names, a bit about them like what their career is/was, where they’ve lived. I chat with them when I see them outside like when doing yard work. My next door neighbor has beehives in his yard and brings me honey regularly, and both him and another have shoveled my sidewalk of snow with their snowplows. I in turn have collected mail for many of them when they’ve been out of town. So that’s definitely something. I don’t talk to them about any politics or religion or anything controversial though, and I think that’s important.
It is nearly impossible to make new friends after 30 though. Some say this is why some people in the rich west have kids: because you have to make your own new friends from scratch, as there is no other way 😆
Excellent read.
The early enthusiasm for the internet was grounded in the supposition that the new digital analogues to social life, culture, commerce, etc. would supplement their solid-life counterparts. Not replace them.
It is sobering to review the last twenty years and come to realize that the things we truly value aren't what we imagined they were.
We are surrendering our third dimension voluntarily.
I live in an apartment building where everyone knows each other. We go to the pub together, to the Christmas Do together, to funerals together. But no one under 40 comes with us. It's like everyone forgot how communities work in 1994 when Netscape Navigator came out.
This is so neat! It's definitely not common. I don't even know any of my neighbors let alone hang out with them. But interesting about the age thing...a sign of the times.
Nice job. The boys and I talk about this a lot.
Sorry, I’m falling asleep 😴
But I’d like to dialogue more tomorrow.
I love what you’ve written though
Thank you!
We had our Daughter when we were young so we lived in family housing. It was the best experience any of us could have had. Our daughter learned three languages just by playing with her friends. We got together constantly and had dinners together. We were friends BEFORE any of us were cool 😆
And that’s just it: Some people seem to operate under the illusion that money = cool. It very much does not. And, frankly, celebrities who do that in the VR world have just found yet another layer to insulate themselves from us. And that makes them a layer less cool too.
The world is tactile. Some of our deepest understandings come from kinetic learning. When we lose that, we become ignorant to the basic fundamental human experiences which we don’t even realize we’ve lost.