Starting in 2012, I started getting irritated when I heard the phrase, “the American people won’t stand for this.” Then we see election results. It seems the american people will stand for Pelosi, AOC, Warnock, censorship, etc… I think it’s an over used phrase that has little value now. Just my opinion
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pelosi is around for ages and the people did stand for it. just as they voted biden for some 40 years straight. nuff said. I really don’t get who is surprised and why.
Fear coupled with complacency and lack of real connection to other people in our communities, etc. Not to mention, as Bill has recently pointed out, our inherit desire to play by the rules. We saw it coming, but still don’t know how to combat it. We could, if we choose, devolve to the Left’s level, yet we don’t. Proper solutions require time, patience, effort, and sacrifice. I think Bill is on to something, and I’m looking to do what I can to help where I can. In the meantime, I’ve been reaching out to allies, prepping my home, drawing my lines, and overall steeling myself for a rough road ahead. I believe we can win, but it won’t be easy.
Not all of us, possibly half the population, don’t want “real connection to other people in our communities.” We’re introverts.
Not having those “real connections” is exactly what we want. Connections make us anxious. They make it difficult for us to function. They make us want to walk away and hide from people.
This culture assumes that everyone is an extrovert. It’s designed for extroverts. It expects everyone to be an extrovert. It thinks something is wrong with people who aren’t extroverts.
There’s nothing wrong with us. We are biologically wired differently; too much human interaction drains our energy. I often spend hours recovering – we introverts call it “recharging” – from human interaction. An exciting night out a a club, engaging in small talk and dancing with loads of our friends, is a vision of hell for us. (There’s a reason it’s called small talk.)
Extroverts, on the other hand, thrive on human interaction. Being alone is what drains them, interaction recharges them. A quiet night in, reading or watching a movie or having a deep, intellectual conversation with one other introvert, is a vision of hell for them. (Very often, small talk is all they’re capable of.)
As I said, we introverts comprise up to half the population. It’s typical of an extrovert to assume that all humans are “social animals.” They continually try to “fix” us, usually by dragging us to that hell I described. That’s a big mistake. We have immense contributions we could be making (and already have made) if we weren’t considered “broken,” if we were left alone to create them.
I think you were channeling me with your response. That is an exact description of me. I’ve longed held the view that the average person sucks and is unworthy of my time and energy. I prefer to associate with those personalities in the tails of the normal curve, because they are fewer and often much more interesting.
I fought my introvert nature for the first 56 years of my life because I was raised by an extrovert (also a clinical narcissist) and her pushover, enabling husband (oh, how I wish my dad had figured it out). For all those years, I thought there was something wrong with me and I fought my true nature.
Then, in, of all places, a Facebook post, there were a few words that made it all click and I understood. There’s nothing wrong with me, my suspicions were correct, I really am an introvert! I spent the next two years all but alone all the time, sorting it out.
Now, about a year after that, it’s a much happier life.
That is shyness, not introversion. Introversion means feeling depleted after interacting with people for long periods of time rather than feeling energized. That’s all. That’s it. It’s energy management.
Introversion has nothing to do with being anxious around people. It has nothing to do with anxiety relating to creating and maintaining relationships. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking people.
Even the most introverted person, when placed in a situation where all humans and animals are removed, will undergo a serious psychological struggle with loneliness. I include animals, because let’s face it, if you were dumped in the middle of nowhere but surrounded by animals, you WOULD find yourself “befriending” one or two. Perhaps even talking to them.
Sorry, but no. It’s not shyness. That’s the mistake many people make about introverts. I’m not shy at all and I have no trouble being around people for a while but it drains my energy and makes me want to get away to recharge. I’ve walked out in the middle of gatherings because of it.
I’ve been living alone for several years now with no pets (the only kind of pets I like are other people’s) and not even plants (the only plants that can survive in my house are dead ones). I almost never venture out and when I do it’s because I have to (doctor appointments, grocery shopping, things like that). If we actually do have some innate need to be social, those things more than satisfy that need for me, by a lot.
I have never had “a serious [or even mild] psychological struggle with loneliness.” And you’re going to have trouble finding an introvert who has. If you can stomach Facebook, join some introvert groups. None of the members of those groups ever say they’re struggling with loneliness.
And I definitely would not try to befriend wild animals. That’s insane. Ever heard about the “bear guy” who lived in the wild and documented it to prove his idea that bears are docile and gentle? Guess how he died. You can find the audio of his last moments online, recorded by his wife as she dropped the camera and tried to find the gun they had brought with them. It ain’t for the feint of heart; they won’t release the video.
I’m very much an introvert myself, and suffer from social anxiety to the point I prefer to be alone rather than hang out with friends and family. People like us would prefer the unexplored frontier to “civilization,” no doubt. I keep flipping between which I’d rather do: get lost on some island in the middle of the Pacific, or hop the first available mission to Mars. Unfortunately, there aren’t many frontiers available to retreat to anymore.
At least for me, self isolation is feeling more like a luxury I can’t afford as Leftism and Socialism creep even deeper into our lives. Forcing myself to get out a bit more to help get back this country, and with it my personal space, is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
While most people don’t like the idea of swimming in freezing, shark-infested waters in the middle of the night, if they were on a sinking ship, they wouldn’t have much choice but to take the plunge. If we’re not there yet, we are certainly on our way.
Well said.
We, as a people, are not standing for it. We are, as a whole, taking it laying down. Hopefuly, that will change as we rise up.