• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m also continously surprised by how socially codependent people are.

    • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      humans are social creatures by nature but the issue is the way that people go about fulfilling those needs in the most useless, destructive way possible

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        As long as the socialibility of the human creates another human who uses the same tools to also make a human, etc., the system works and will require no changes.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          this is like that moment in a cartoon where a character looks at their feet, notices they’re standing on air, and fall down

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      As the sociologist Brooke Harrington puts it, if there was an E = mc2 of social science, it would be SD > PD, “social death is more frightening than physical death.”