I’ve been feeling over the past few years that the increasing removal of human interaction from our lives, including random conversations in real life, has made it easier for people to be more divided and view strangers as an “other” instead of a fellow human.

I don’t really like to talk with anyone for no reason. There has to be a reason or feeling to talk. Before anyone says that would keep anyone for talking there is all sorts of basic polite speech as we go about our day. hello, thank you, man its cold. I don’t really view that as talking unless an organic conversation forms.

I really have no problem talking to almost anyone about anything, and I like to talk, but whenever I go out I always have to be the first person to speak whenever talking to a stranger. I’m just kind of burnt out and over it.

Really loved that read. I really have to agree and I kind of forgot about this. In recent years I feel like we really have become extremely Individualist and dare I say it Isolationist on a human level. I spent a year in the US and felt like it was a lot more easy going starting a talk with strangers. But now in Germany I moved recently and it does feel pretty isolating. But my mind keeps telling me reasons not to connect. It feels strange if I just approach a random person to talk. Even if there is so much to be gained I have no idea and most people look busy or like just worried of their own. I wish to revert this trend but idk how

Viv Groskop is hosting a masterclass on How to Own the Room at the Royal blah blah…