It’s actually kinda upsetting to think about how pre internet people had to sort of adapt their preferences such that they could be friends with people in a mostly geographical dunbar radius. There just must’ve been way lower standards for friendship quality, compatibility, etc. Leading to more dysfunctions along the lines of abuse (however defined), to say nothing of the conformity.
Related: I have a high bar for romance because distance relationships, conditioning on my city is a bad time or at least some notion of “settling”.
I guess what I’m saying is if everyone dramatically raises the bar in terms of what kind of interpersonal quality they can expect, shouldn’t an observer expect a correspondingly dramatic increase in happiness?
It’s actually kinda upsetting to think about how pre internet people had to sort of adapt their preferences such that they could be friends with people in a mostly geographical dunbar radius. There just must’ve been way lower standards for friendship quality, compatibility, etc. Leading to more dysfunctions along the lines of abuse (however defined), to say nothing of the conformity.
Related: I have a high bar for romance because distance relationships, conditioning on my city is a bad time or at least some notion of “settling”.
I guess what I’m saying is if everyone dramatically raises the bar in terms of what kind of interpersonal quality they can expect, shouldn’t an observer expect a correspondingly dramatic increase in happiness?