I work in corporate environment and I really need advice on that. For the record, I'm fairly average guy, neither super book smart nor street smart, nerdy and somewhere on the spectrum. But I aspire to be at the very least minimally cultured, read here and there, watch some classic movie and stay away from reels-style content and social media disease to best of my ability. Someone truly literate would immediately clock me as a pseud, but I make an effort not to act very pretentiously.And to my shock I have absolutely nul common ground with people in my office job (all college grads no less). People are already a bit skittish in larger groups and act a bit for obvious reasons (and I'm very very bad at partaking in these situations). So good 80% of non-work related talk is about who went on holiday where, footie or sports in general, cars, this week's tiktok trend or netflix slop, food and such. I'm not in on any of it at all. Sometimes people discuss sports betting, or study nuances of burgers between different chains and to my horror it is not ironic at all. Again I don't want to come off as elitist sperg, but there ain't nothing to discuss with these people even when I mustered up courage and felt particularly articulate, when even latest oscars stuff is out-there to them, let alone anything more """esoteric""". And this isn't even me trying to encroach on actually nerdy territory.Things are pretty dire and by now I'm considered total weirdo since I basically do not contribute to convos or socialize with people much, except those I work with directly on daily basis where there is more rapport built and some 1-to-1 opportunities.This is becoming a problem
>>3444967690% of all human interactions, even among elites, is on the small-talk level you disdain. But here's what you don't understand - NOBODY is really interested in who went on holiday where, footie or sports in general, cars, this week's tiktok trend or netflix slop, food and such. It is not the purpose of small talk to exchange information. It is to affirm and strengthen social bonds. The subjects being talked about are just an excuse for the physical experience of standing around together affirming friendship just by standing around together.Monkeys "groom" each other, picking nits out of each other's fur. But monkey-watchers have spotted that the nits are just an excuse for sitting together, signalling friendship. We generally don'r pick nits off each other. We talk about sports.
>>34451215I hate this analogue because its true
>>34449676Ever since the covid hoax I stopped interacting with the goyim cattle. I just look through them and pretend they don't exist. I don't even greet them or acknowledge their presence. I'm not staring either, I'm just looking straight through them as if they weren't there.My life has significantly improved. I am at peace
I had the same problem. I used to prepare some generic lines for every scenario and try to fit in. It didn't work. A colleague showed a tiktok video he recorded. I was shocked: someone in my environment does this shit? I just stared in disbelief and couldn't use any of my pre-prepared lines. The spergness will always leak through. At least in my case.I have since solved the problem by sitting at home unemployed in total isolation.
