Normies are normies not because they love to socialize but because they are genuinely afraid of being alone with themselves and hearing their own thoughts. It's fear guiding them rather than an innate need for socialization.

This is why normies will seldom initiate a conversation on their own. Usually they expect the other side to talk to them&initiate conversations. Ask yourself, how many people talked to you unless you talked to them first?

And recently, if you look at any normie social gatherings, they're all on their phones rather than talking to each other. Even before the smartphones, normies needed copious amount of alcohol to socialize because without alcohol numbing their brains, they had little to no social skills.

So therefore friendships are entirely locational and in some cases literally no different from LARP. There are "best friends" in high school who NEVER talk to each after they graduate despite having the means to do so. Because their friendship is entirely locational. The location being school. They didn't want to be bored so they had to hang out with each other. But if you remove the location, they no longer hang out with each other.

So how is this any different from, say, playing League of Legends with complete strangers? Or how is this any different from having e-friends?

>>81827873 (OP)
How about this. The reason you're not an extrovert is because you aren't attractive enough. If you had the positive reinforcement from early childhood of being a good looking person, you would be extroverted. Most normies are not attractive, therefore they are coping.

>>81827907
There are good looking introverts too. Being good looking improves your chances of finding a sexual mate. But I'm not sure if it gives you the ability to put up with people.

>>81827873 (OP)

Great post, fellow people-analyzing anon. Schopenhauer is GOATed for that quote too.

>>81827873 (OP)
Introverts don't mind being alone though.
Normies fear it. Extroverts need people around them all the time to feel right.

>>81829136
This was my point. Most extroverts' normiedom is mostly a performative act, can almost be described as escapism while introverts are in their natural state.

>>81827873 (OP)
Pretty much, yeah. It's funny as you get older and watch your normie friends who flunked out of their relationships and social life come back to you in desperation, when you've already learned how to have a rich life on your own terms.

>>81829002
Before I discovered that quote by Schopenhauer I was thinking of something similar. Always nice to find that a philosopher said the thing that was on your mind.

>>81827907
You guys obsessed with looks are such cucks jfl literal crying baby