
Zyros
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Until now my only complaint was that just when I am at my best bloat wise after all hard work, I have to cover it and well I feel cheated. But lately I felt something else. I feel everyday more and more disconnected from the world when I go outside. I no longer feel that there are people around, I feel like we are some faceless robots stripped of identity, everything looks much more "homogeneous", less alive, like everyone including me are the same automats. When talking to cashiers if I do groceries, I feel like talking to robots. Everyone also acts more distant and cold. Nightlife is back but its but a shadow of what it was too. By the way, masks are currently mandatory here (they were optional before) unless you are at some cafeteria. Since this new mandatory rule, the world became a barren thing populate by faceless NPCS, myself included as one.
What really struck me is watching some shows and series, and involuntarily feeling a "oh, those were good times, when people had faces and were unique, when the world was alive and fun" kind of weird thing. I didnt even stop to think this it just struck me as a "warm feeling of better times", and then it freaked me out when I realized what I just felt. I literally saw the fact of people actually talking to each other, having faces and being lively as something that now was fiction.
I am just terrified about this being the future. Theres no foreseeable date in which this mask rule will end, and I very much fear this becoming actually our new default state of society, severely stunting human connection, one of the foundations of a mentally healthy society. Identity and personal expression becoming luxuries instead of basic human things.
I know its a silly thing to think and i'm sure many of you will consider this vent stupid and petty: they are just masks, but even me not being a social butterfly myself, this shit is really taking a toll on me. Feeling this kind of nostalgia/fiction when watching the series really sent shivers trough my spine.
What really struck me is watching some shows and series, and involuntarily feeling a "oh, those were good times, when people had faces and were unique, when the world was alive and fun" kind of weird thing. I didnt even stop to think this it just struck me as a "warm feeling of better times", and then it freaked me out when I realized what I just felt. I literally saw the fact of people actually talking to each other, having faces and being lively as something that now was fiction.
I am just terrified about this being the future. Theres no foreseeable date in which this mask rule will end, and I very much fear this becoming actually our new default state of society, severely stunting human connection, one of the foundations of a mentally healthy society. Identity and personal expression becoming luxuries instead of basic human things.
I know its a silly thing to think and i'm sure many of you will consider this vent stupid and petty: they are just masks, but even me not being a social butterfly myself, this shit is really taking a toll on me. Feeling this kind of nostalgia/fiction when watching the series really sent shivers trough my spine.
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