There's this guy I watch on YouTube name Greg Guevara and he's like a performance artist who goes really deeply into the ideas behind internet culture and the kinds of personalities that develop from being chronically online. And so for a long time he was kind of out there as this guy who was like really really down deep into the muck of the internet but could still speak about it in a semi-coherent way. Lately though he's made this switch to being someone who has come out the other end of everything and now he talks a lot about how much he values community and genuine social interaction and healthy friendships and he made this video about 'irony poisoning' and there's this section in it that I really like and think about whenever I make a social mistake or do something awkward:
"and I have felt and will feel absolutely all the problems that community comes with like broken trust and heartbreak. I will feel betrayal. I'm sure I will inflict plenty of pain upon of plenty of people just as they inflict pain upon me. That's how human interactions work. When did we forget that that was a part of it? Finding community will not solve your problems it'll just make your problems more bearable and it will also give you better problems. I want you to have those problems. Those are good problems. I don't feel purposeless and nihilistic and confused and to the extent that I do still feel all of those things--they're way more of just like passing thoughts and emotions rather than my actual baseline egoistic state."
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