Hmm.
I'm honestly not sure how I've managed now to even drive away the people I work with online.... I mean, if I don't fit in in real life, there should be some consolation, right? I should be able to fit in somewhere, in one of the two verses. But in the past 24 hours, I've been called a lot of awful things online for just asking a few questions with absolutely no malicious intent. It's not like there's too much I can do about it; we get all this preachy shit about how we should always be ourselves so that people will like us. Yes, well and good for the general masses, the people that enjoy sports and sex and relationships and MySpace. But what about those of us that don't? The computer programmers, the young mathematicians, scientists, linguists, musicians. I'm not talking about the people who enjoy things like that. I'm talking about the people that could already be making a decent amount of money with them. If you're reading this, you can obviously tell if you're one of them or not.
We're supposed to fit in with each other. It's how society works. Everybody normal together, everybody else together. Two neat groups, no complaints. But we don't all get along, all of us misfits. In fact, we mostly hate each other. I could be talking to a friend of mine who has a lot of computers and then call him lucky, and then he goes into a swearing fit and leaves.* That same situation in the normal group would cause a big problem. But if it happens in the misfit group, nobody notices. The mean interaction isn't normal, we're not normal, and that computes.
So why, then? Why can't all the groups learn to get along? Because that's about as realistic as getting the world to get along and stop caring about arbitrary beliefs like religion or morals. A static societal model works, but not well. Anything else would be too much work. Oh, here he goes again, complaining about how it's society's fault and not his. Well it's both. I'll admit that I'm a bit biased against it, but most would be biased against things that don't work in their favor. I might be dragging on a bit here, but you needn't read the whole thing. If something is simultaneously the fault of every party involved, then how do we fix it?
No, that's not rhetorical.
If anybody has any ideas, I'm sure you can figure out how to let me know. But so far, I'm stumped.
Ah, well, when I get the urge to go play a game in the middle of a post, you know it's over.
*That's actually what sparked this post as the end of a night of similar incidents.