• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I really don’t think that overcrowding is doing it. Look at the United States, we’re absolutely sprawled out as a motherfucker. Modesto looks like a bomb went off that blew away everything taller than one floor. We’re suffering from a huge loneliness epidemic.

    Maybe instead it’s the perception of crowdedness? It could be that we’re only wired to receive a certain amount of social stimulation, and at that, from a fairly small group. The Internet has stuck a stick of dynamite in that and blown it all over the beach. Maybe it’s just more than we’re wired to cope with?

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      10 months ago

      Our natural habitat consists of living in tribes of roughly 100-120 people as hunter-gatherers. How could people not have difficulty functioning in this modern world?