How to find associates?
As an introvert, I usually don't have any problems being alone and not communicating with other people. I'm pretty sure many of you can relate on this.
But when you look at it on a big scale, you might notice some unexpected problems with the introverted society. While we sit in our personal informational bubbles, we are losing ability to cooperate and organize into communities. This gives a big advandage to billionaires, politicians, and other "elites", and they use this advantage to gain even more power.
This is almost a physics law, and it's fully described in a book "The Narrow Corridor".
But this post is not about the book, and not about confrontation between the State and Society. It's about how I decided to address the problem by creating a game, that simulates that confrontation. The idea is if people had a gaming experience of fighting together against inequality and injustice, it would be easier for them to do it in real life.
What I found during developing the game is: it's nearly impossible to develop it alone. Big surprise. The kickstarter project didn't take off, and the friends of mine, even those who liked the project, didn't like it enough to participate.
So if you have any thoughts of how and where to find people willing to be engaged in this, please tell me, because I'm out of ideas.
TLDR; I'm developing a game that teaches people how to cooperate, and I cannot find anyone to cooperate with
I understand why people don't want to interact with others: it's usually quite stressful. For me as well. So my goal was to make it less stressful and less serious, it's just a game after all.
I've become much more introverted these last few years. It's not that I'm not social –I'm very outgoing, in fact– it's that I can't relax in social situations, and need separate time alone to do so.
TV and social media have increased the expectations we have on ourselves when it comes to socializing.
We have to be slicker, more charming, more polished, more attractive, etc, and for introverts (like me) it's easy to look at that treadmill and just say "meh, pass". Extroverts, otoh, can easily get consumed by the treadmill to the point that they lose track of what they're trying to reach.
This is just modern digital society, my original theory was that we have to gain "immunity" from exposure, but now watching how fast the treadmill evolves I'm not sure that works, it's easy to cost people large parts of their lives chasing that dragon (or refusing and self-isolating).
I loved early mmorpgs, but now the people side seems onerous, and I basically just want to deal with a computer who I don't have to worry about being judged by (because they see worse than me on a daily basis).