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What happens when no one want to talk? (blackneon.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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No one online seems to want to talk at all. People in my age seem to lose the ability to talk.

What happens if we all forget how to have a deep or entertaining conversations?

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I sympathize with wanting to feel comfortable and connected with a partner. I hope you can find an arrangement that makes you happy.

I also totally know the feeling of finding little passages or pieces of art or media that I really emotionally resonate with and struggling to communicate what they mean to me. I'm not surprised, things like that are so strongly influenced by your own context, but I still find it disappointing.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yes! I know that feeling. David Foster Wallace wrote in one of his novels, I forget which, something like "how strange that I can have all this inside me, and to you it's just words". When you find something that emotionally resonate with you, art or poetry or anything, do you think that the meaning is what the artist intended, that there's a 1:1 connection with what the artist felt, or is it more that the art allows us to put meaning into it? Like a more sophisticated and guided Rorschach test?

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