Loneliness and Us

Before I begin I must preface that this is mostly a test of the latest ditto feature. However, I do genuinely feel this way and I hope that by sharing my thoughts others can feel a sense of being known. 

Something that we've come to experience in society is this pervasive loneliness. It's been building for awhile, but it had definitely increased exponentially during the worst of Covid. The current state of social media and the rise of grind culture certainly don't help the state of things. We must remember that we are still, functionally, apes. And any ape species is highly social and requires community to survive. Many of the philosophies Ditto is founded on echo this sentiment.

So what can we do? Well, we can try to shift focus to a less competitive social framework. Make social media not about how much Better one is doing against their fellow humans, but rather how much our lives are Improved by other humans. We can interject whimsy into our interactions with each other, returning to the childlike wonder of finding a cool rock and showing it to your friends. We can make each other laugh and smile, and we can share tears when the pain gets to be too much. The world is cold and hard, but life within a community doesn't have to be. 

Edit: this is a test.