Yup. Steve created a community, he stayed healthy, he cared about the things that mattered to him the most… and fuck anyone who thinks that’s somehow more harmful than scrolling every night until you fall asleep, listening to streamers rant about politics or the latest video game patches.

The most important thing you can do to make both the world better and your own experience of it better is to challenge yourself and be social. We are hardwired to have social connections and without them, we slip into apathy and hate and despair. Even if you’re deep off the far edge neurodivergent spectrum, you need people, you need friends or family or a future with others to look forward to.

When you care about your life and the people around you, you will have more pressure to get off your damn ass and either learn more about the world or just DO something about it, and that’s where we’re having the biggest problems right now, people are not DOING things. When we were less connected, we had stronger communities. I was there 3000 years ago, I’ve seen it.