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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sorry, unless you start your own sovereign country, you have to participate in society. Not everyone likes promoting themselves, disagreeing diplomatically, etc. Still, we play the game, even though I wish we didn't all have to...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I prefer to say that humans are not very efficient at organizing. We’re just the most efficient so far for general problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

your comment reminds me of a text I read a long time ago, comparing humans to ants and pointing that we're incredibly intelligent when alone, but we become less and less intelligent when in bigger groups, while ants seem not very intelligent when alone, but when in groups, they seem amazingly intelligent

[–] GoofSchmoofer 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is true it is a big part of society and how to get along, and you would think that because this is one of the foundations of this society it would be a bigger part of someone's education. This shouldn't be something people should have to figure out on their own in order to feed themselves and their family

One semester of Schmooze 101 could go along way in helping an awkward yet brilliant scientist get the funding they need.

[–] dustyData 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well there are two alternatives that let you not do it. We either die of starvation alone and isolated, never cooperating with anyone. Or we club and bomb each other away in endless fight and war over resources. I like the being diplomatic, political and deliberative way much better than either of these, even if it can seem a bit hypocritical and tiring some times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Even if you do start your own sovereign country, once you have more than one person you have to play politics. It's just the human condition