I prefer to have same things all the days of the year. This extra pressure to celebrate on occasions feels so forced. I like the extra time I have for myself on holidays and don’t have it waste on things on obligatory celebrations.
Just let me be with me and my PC.
This is the vibe I’m feeling on this new year’s eve. Does anybody else feel this way?
Human variation.
Since before we evolved into humans, it’s never been a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket. So some humans don’t just enjoy that social interaction, they literally need it.
Others fucking hate it. And want nothing more than to be a hermit.
The variation helps prevent an entire group from being wiped out at once.
Oxytocin is what’s playing a big role in that variation, and some people use a nasal spray to increase their levels and be more social. But if you’re a man and your ingroup developed along racial lines due to not being exposed to other races when very young…
That extra Oxytocin is gonna make you biased against men of other ethnic groups. The whole “they’re coming for our women” thing is literally baked into our DNA. But if you’re around various races when young, you don’t form in group along racial lines. They’re not automatically “them” because some your “us” looked like them.
Which is why Alabama banning Sesame Street due to inclusivity or Nazis complaining about “woke media” is actually a serious thing. Even just seeing mixed race interactions on TV is enough for young viewers to develop ingroups that include various ethnic groups