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>my friends were a lot less normie in the past
>they have become shells of themselves.
>tolerance for ideological "outsiders" only increases.

Really well put overall
You know what I've got the feeling that we started in a world that was mainly normal people, which were slowly replaced overtime by NPC counterparts, to a point where the repartition is like 95% of the world population are mindless NPCs and about 5% are "real" people. Idk, they just seem more...robotic now. What used to be reasonable people now falling for retarded/extremist ideologies, as if their mental immune system just dropped to the point that they become a prey for mind viruses of all sorts.

>but it was like herding cats to get them to come
haha yeah, also got the feeling of begging for attention everytime I try to connect with someone. People you used to be close with slowly fading out of your life or turning cold as fuck is probably the hardest part for me.. Good luck to you anon and hope you manage to find at least a meaningful person out there