I wonder why heavily technocratic people — literally almost everybody else on Mastodon — is adverse to having opinions or standing out in real life in some measurable way that goes against the norm. Would it kill some of you to stand against convention? I hail from a blue collar world and closed Republican family — where I was denied access and money to a convenient college education and I faced tough odds. After all of that, I came out okay. /Your/ software is running on all of our smartphones and on all of our computers. It is both the essence and purpose or scope of this very software which is defining some of the rules in US society that all people have to adhere to; just to get along and leave the rest behind who hate life in general or are out of ideas and won't hesitate to blame others over the constant forms of change that have been occurring. Certainly you highly intelligent introverts must have an opinion on what will become of this once esteemed country that now feels and looks like some old Hand Me Down — somewhere on down the line. After this awful time period we've all been living in, how the hell could you not have some opinions of your own?