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You aren't wrong, however bear in mind what else I said in that.

"The world is alien, and people who do not adapt or change, or reject adaptation become specialized; what happens to the specialization when the alien world around them no longer wishes or can afford to support them?"

The Hikikomori rejection of world adaptation often feeds from a fat reserve in society. Rarely, in that scene of those who refuse to change or contain themselves within boxes do you have people who are truly self made or free. They are granted the privilege of having that, by a system that tolerates it. In that, refusal to change becomes a sort of anchor, and diminishing situation; thus for someone like that, you have pity for.

For the rare ones who escape the box of society, do as they will without influences of the outside world, because they subsist and create solely from themselves, are truly a rare breed; and even that is an adaptation in response to the alien world that encroaches upon theirs.

I choose not to be ignorant, but I like to smile at when things weren't so alien, and look forward to how things will change and how wonderful it is to live in a time where the dreams and hopes of my ancestors are made real, in what feels like a fever dream of a current time.

I wonder, would my ancestors look upon me, technology embedded under my skin, talking to digital ghosts behind crystal screens, with constant access to invisible all knowing guides and information and think me a god, or if they will smile and say "This is what we hoped, that you'd live in the fever dream we imagined for you. Now go and make more fever dreams for your own descendants."

It's kind of a weird thing yeah, and as you progress, especially in the present and future age, one has to adapt faster and faster into things and concepts that 100-150 years ago would have you committed to an asylum for how outlandish, alien and exotic they would seem.

I don't lament this, I just notice it.