"Humans are social creatures"

Barney said:

I'm socially inept.

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Wolfstorm said:

When I read or listen this phrase, I feel the desire to kill billions.

What about you? How do you feel?


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Schwarzwald said:

I assume you don't count yourself among those billions?

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• The Gaslighting: This frames a worker’s preference for a quiet, productive home environment as a "psychological flaw" or an "unnatural" defiance of human evolution.
• The Reality: It intentionally ignores the financial and mental toll of long commutes, micro-managements, and the fact that most corporate offices are loud and counterproductive. The phrase is used to mask control and real estate investments under the guise of "human wellness."

• The Gaslighting: People who continue to mask, social distance, or limit large indoor gatherings are often told they are "denying their human nature" or "living in unnatural fear."
• The Reality: This shifts the blame from a societal failure to provide clean indoor air and accessible public health onto the individual. It gaslights vulnerable people into believing that protecting their physical health is a form of psychological self-harm.

• The Gaslighting: Introverts, autistic individuals, or people with social burnout are often met with comments like, "But humans are social creatures, you can't survive alone," whenever they express a preference for solitude.
• The Reality: This erases the fact that socialization is a wide spectrum. Deeper, low-frequency, or digital interactions are entirely valid. Forcing overstimulation under the guise of "essential human nature" pathologizes normal boundaries.

• The Gaslighting: Advertisements and thought pieces claim that if you are lonely, you are failing to fulfill your biological imperative, and you should use their platforms to "reconnect".
• The Reality: Modern digital infrastructure is actively designed to keep people isolated and scrolling for profit. The internet gaslights users into thinking loneliness is an individual failure of willpower rather than a direct byproduct of hyper-individualistic society and eroded physical community spaces (Third Places).

Wolfstorm said:

Why do you need to gaslight users, /pol/?

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Wolfstorm said:

I asked AI about the most recent internet gaslighting tactic, here are the answers:

1. Corporate "Return-to-Office" (RTO) Mandates
Corporate leadership frequently uses pop-psychology to force workers back into physical offices. Executive memos often state, "Humans are social creatures who need to collaborate in person," to justify ending remote work.

• The Gaslighting: This frames a worker’s preference for a quiet, productive home environment as a "psychological flaw" or an "unnatural" defiance of human evolution.
• The Reality: It intentionally ignores the financial and mental toll of long commutes, micro-managements, and the fact that most corporate offices are loud and counterproductive. The phrase is used to mask control and real estate investments under the guise of "human wellness."

2. Shaming the Chronically Ill and Disabled
Following the rollbacks of public health measures, the phrase has been weaponized against immunocompromised or cautious individuals.

• The Gaslighting: People who continue to mask, social distance, or limit large indoor gatherings are often told they are "denying their human nature" or "living in unnatural fear."
• The Reality: This shifts the blame from a societal failure to provide clean indoor air and accessible public health onto the individual. It gaslights vulnerable people into believing that protecting their physical health is a form of psychological self-harm.

3. Pathologizing Neurodivergence and Introversion
On platforms like TikTok, the phrase is heavily used to enforce rigid standards of neurotypical socialization.

• The Gaslighting: Introverts, autistic individuals, or people with social burnout are often met with comments like, "But humans are social creatures, you can't survive alone," whenever they express a preference for solitude.
• The Reality: This erases the fact that socialization is a wide spectrum. Deeper, low-frequency, or digital interactions are entirely valid. Forcing overstimulation under the guise of "essential human nature" pathologizes normal boundaries.

4. Commercializing the "Loneliness Epidemic"
Tech companies and lifestyle brands frequently quote the "social creatures" axiom to sell products, specifically tech-driven solutions like AI companions.

• The Gaslighting: Advertisements and thought pieces claim that if you are lonely, you are failing to fulfill your biological imperative, and you should use their platforms to "reconnect".
• The Reality: Modern digital infrastructure is actively designed to keep people isolated and scrolling for profit. The internet gaslights users into thinking loneliness is an individual failure of willpower rather than a direct byproduct of hyper-individualistic society and eroded physical community spaces (Third Places).

Feels so good to support AI, can't wait to see all normies being forced to live inside pods(tm) so that they can socialize(tm) in virtual environments, and leave us NDs in peace.

Humans are not social creatures. Golems are.

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CPT馬冠宇 said:

I feel like someone is trying to sell me overpriced coffee at starbucks

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Wolfstorm said:

Why do you need to gaslight users, /pol/?

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Omg every time i see this kinda stuff I think its a joke like theres hidden camera on me and people gonna jump out and tell me im on candid camera,

I post this on my wall on FB ironically to see how people react because i think its the funniest shit i ever saw

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Schwarzwald said:

As a child I didn't but as an adult I wanna cum into the envelope but then those yides would have my coom.

But you're right it's very silly and comical.

Have I brought up the kars for kids donation scam for rich Jewish kids to go to summer camp?

"The ads fail to disclose that the vast majority of the proceeds are funneled to an Orthodox Jewish sister organization, Oorah. These funds primarily benefit Jewish youth in New York and New Jersey, financing religious education, camps, and gap-year trips to Israel."

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CPT馬冠宇 said:

Nope never heard of Kars for Kids or if i did i forgot

I looked it up

the jingle didnt say anything about being jewish i just would feel vaguely butthurt because i never even had a licence

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Barney said:

I'm socially inept.

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pariah said:

There's some truth to the cliche. I'm as asocial as it gets and have been living in self-imposed isolation for a long time. Yet here I am, posting on a forum and trying to communicate my inner thoughts to other humans when I could've simply kept them to myself instead. Had humans been truly solitary creatures--like, say, sand cats--then none of us would be here.

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Wolfstorm said:

Exchanging ideas in a pseudonymous forum is not socializing.
To socialize in the internet you use a social network, like instacattle and tikgolem.

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Wolfstorm said:

Exchanging ideas in a pseudonymous forum is not socializing.
To socialize in the internet you use a social network, like instacattle and tikgolem.

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pariah said:

Don't you think that's an arbitrary distinction? "Exchanging ideas" on a forum may seem more refined and intelligent than commenting on TikTok slop, for example, but both acts ultimately stem from the human will to reach out and socialize. Further, there's more to a forum such as this one than the cold and detached "exchange of ideas". You have an avatar, a music soundtrack to your profile, a "badge", you may share what anime you like, etc. I don't know what to call this other than socializing. At the very least, it's a virtual emulation of it, if you want to be overly strict with your definitions.

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Wolfstorm said:

Do talking to an AI counts as socializing? Because 90% of my exchanges in the internet nowadays is with AI.
Can AI take pictures of itself on a beach during vacation?
Can AI talk about previous relationships, jobs and career?
Can AI invite you for a meeting in a physical space?
Can AI compare how many "friends" it have in relation to me?
This is all there is to socializing in the internet, it is just peacocks displaying their tails.

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cosmicx16 said:

People are imbued in their ideas, you can’t just say an exchange of ideas isn’t getting to know the other. The only way I would see someone adopting that opinion is if they were so driven to be disconnected from a social aspect of conversations that they would mentally remove the association of ideas and idea formulators, which just doesn’t make sense. I don’t know about AI counting or not because it’s a summation of people, but you are talking to people here, and learning what they think, which is a part of them, do you agree?

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Wolfstorm said:

your personality defines your ideas.

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