21 October

More life as a high school. Melbourne re-opens. It’s curious that the narrative around lockdowns has been that people are healthiest and happiest when they can mix socially. That without it, they become lonely and depressed. As if being social is our default human state, which lockdown has taken away from us. That’s just plain wrong. Social life is a life of imitation, comparison and status. It’s some of of the most miserable aspects of life, from school through to adulthood. A society that sees freedom as social life is a high school. Adolescents are obsessed with social life, adults are supposed to grow out of it, to have fewer friends as they age because they no longer need them. They’re more comfortable just being themselves, with their families. Not anti-social, but more mature and less needy of interaction. Less co-dependent.