sangheilios
Master Don Juan
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I personally feel it is too early to tell, but I think the pandemic affected people and social culture in many ways that will be permanent. From my observations, I feel that social circles that people had about a year ago grew smaller and tighter, assuming that they were maintained. This goes back to what I referred to earlier, that people are going to be even less social than they were before. For those who had a limited or worse no social circle I feel like an environment where people stick to themselves has been created and will last for a long time. All of what I'm mentioning here are not things that people consciously chose to bring upon themselves, it's just a combination of many factors and these are the results.I thoroughly enjoyed how you laid out your composition. I also agree with every point you raised.
The pandemic just amplified a problem that had been simmering quietly for decades, similar to how a volcano finally erupts when the lava pressure build-up reaches a crescendo.
The problem now is that multitudes of those men who were borderline incels before the pandemic and then became full-blown ‘cels; what are the chances that they will be able to claw their way back out of the boiling pot and recover their former state, once this pandemic passes? I suspect the majority wont achieve that reverse osmosis
As for dating in particular, this is what I feel like may be the issues that men face. In my opinion, I feel like the decisions and actions men took during 2020 will play a major role in how the rest of their life will shape. Men that were unemployed through the pandemic last year have set themselves back by a severe margin that they may have a hard time recovering from, if they ever do. Think about it, you take an average run of the mill guy who had maybe a handful of friends but wasn't all that socially connected and now he loses his job and has been sitting around doing nothing. I think of a guy was around college age this is fine but if you get a guy who is in his late 20s through early 30s, prime time, it really is going to have an impact. Also, tons of people, men included, developed issues with drugs and alcohol last year at record rates. Overall, I feel like 2020 was a year that decided who in the younger cohort was going to be a have or a have not.