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What is the answer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Share some objective or subjective wisdom you’ve learned recently.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Individualism is a good way to get depression. Meet new people, make friends, go to public places. Humans evolved as a social species.

Also, find some ways to chill in nature wherever you can. Humans didn't evolve in a concrete and plastic environment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I learnt that humans are happiest when their environment most closely reflects the one we evolved in.

So I got myself a couple of parasites, killed my neighbour and stole his wife.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it took me 6 years working abroad to realise that I could speak more freely with a random stranger from my homeland, than I ever could with my (now ex-)girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean "isolation". Individualism had nothing to do with being alone or not making friends.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/individualism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, but I used the term individualism on purpose.

I think that a mostly individualist culture leads to more isolation, and we, as a society, should be encouraging more collectivism.

Isolation is a symptom of a bigger problem for most IMO