I enjoy the drama on occasion, most of the time I find it pretty funny, especially the online spats between total strangers. I don't think it is limited to just the lonely or basement dwellers, I do think a lot of it is from people with mental issues though. Anyone that strives to inflict pain on anyone for any reason is not operating with a full deck of cards.

A lot of the drama is like a car wreck or a derailed train, we just have to look, to see if people are hurt, or to imagine what if it was us in there scenario's. I don't think it is so much looking for the gore of the situation, it is more of how did this happen, what caused it, and how the hell do I make sure it doesn't happen to me. A not so healthy person would see it different, and view it with different thoughts.

Last night I was trying to think of the last time I saw a **Wholesome** movie. One with out the violence, the bloodshed, the sex and sexual innuendos. One where the kids were not the outcast, were not the dregs, were not the problem kids. There are no wholesome movies made anymore. The last one I remember would be *Charlie, the lonesome cougar*, and even that had some violence/cruelty.

A lot of the enjoyment from drama on line is I think because we are glad it is not us in their shoes type thing. I have grown very weary of all the movies with the violence on and from kids in movies lately. That there is no depiction of **normal kids**, just the violent losers, or the super geeks. No normal.

Honestly,  it makes me want to rip my hair out from my scalp. I can not and do not think i can ever understand it. I know we are all different and tend to express or handle emotions and situations differently but there is just no excuse, non whatsoever for inflicting emotional damage on anyone. Truth be told, we may not be as savage or as brutal as the dark ages but i am sure we definitely have more suicides and suicide attempts than that period.

Emotions are one of the most difficult things to manage however, the mastery of ones emotion is the beginning of the knowledge of one's self.


> What is even more interesting in my opinion, is that they have no incentive to do this other than likes and stars from their "peer" group, other strangers

This seems to be rampant on Twitter and among people of my age group.
For me, i just feel this is a way of craving for attention and sometimes validation. 
I don't get why someone will want to inflict pain on someone they don't know. It's crazy

I first wrote about the desensitization to killing back in the 70s.  We watched Movies and TV where the good guy killed bad guys and the bad guys had the good graces to just fall down and be dead.  Now a days in video games they don't even leave a carcass behind, just poof away.

I imagine the first time somebody would plunge a knife or sword into a person that needed it that they would be mighty surprised at the amount of blood that can gush from a human.  Lots of shooters are really surprised at the violence and just how hard people can fight back when their lives are at stake.

You know what?  This is getting completely out of control and I will come back later to actually answer your most excellent post.  I'll have my soap box completely put away by then.  

> I'm not cut out for manual labor - though doing it reminds me what humans can get used to.

My brother in law came to the farm to help with harvest (before they were married).  As we were washing up for lunch he looked in the mirror and said "I'm way too handsome to be a farmer."  My brother and I weren't amused, and that may have been the high point of my relationship with him.  Manual or at least semi manual labor involved :)

Is it humor that is leaving?  That could be it.  It could be that we are as you say 'siloed into ourselves' Where almost nobody but me matters.  It's a pretty tragic picture.

When I'm feeling really good about life I think that most of the noise I hear is actually put out by a very small percentage and that most people are actually OK. But in reality, influencers influence and every body wants to be like Mike.  

Sometimes I'm really glad I'm old, that my life is essentially lived.   

Why do manual labor when you can have someone else do it for you.
Believe it or not, I don't even clean up after I poop, I have someone else do it.

Excellent, wise words. Personally, I find it very difficult to force myself to do a task when I vaguely imagine the final result of this work. Perhaps this is the main trap of remote work on the Internet.

Congratulations @tarazkp! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

<table><tr><td><img src="https://images.hive.blog/60x60/http://hivebuzz.me/badges/postallweek.png"></td><td>You have been a buzzy bee and published a post every day of the week</td></tr>
</table>

<sub>_You can view [your badges on your board](https://hivebuzz.me/@tarazkp) And compare to others on the [Ranking](https://hivebuzz.me/ranking)_</sub>
<sub>_If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word_ `STOP`</sub>


To support your work, I also upvoted your post!


**Do not miss the last post from @hivebuzz:**
<table><tr><td><a href="/hivebuzz/@hivebuzz/update-202008"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/64x128/https://i.imgur.com/C5NcoUe.png"></a></td><td><a href="/hivebuzz/@hivebuzz/update-202008">Project Activity Update</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/hivebuzz/@hivebuzz/customization-guide"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/64x128/https://i.imgur.com/CBT3nKM.png"></a></td><td><a href="/hivebuzz/@hivebuzz/customization-guide">The Customization Guide for the HiveBuzz store</a></td></tr></table>

I have never done much manual work in my life, don't even know to what level it has affected me.

In 2017, a friend of mine, who is a national level athlete, told me that he wasn't training for the last one year. So he asked me to start running, going to gym etc, from the next day. Basically start training again with him. He would have some company.

He told me to come at 5:30 the next morning. I was waking up at 11-12 in the noon at that time.

I have never run in my life prior to 2017, and I was 23.

But the next day, I showed up, exactly at 5:30. Started running, training with him. And continued for the next 6 months. It is one of the best memory in my life in terms of achievements.

Those 6 months taught me how much physical fitness change a person. Now, everyday I work out, play badminton, go for a jog, it makes me more happy.

The thing in today's world is that there is no manual labour. Nobody wants to do it.
My dad was a cop, he retired and now grows crops, does 10x more work than me or someone of my age. All his life, he loved doing hard manual work, work in and around house.
So, he is quite strong mentally.

Then I see kids, who cries for two hours because their pizza isn't right.

I don't know, but lack of physical movement has weakened the people. Sitting in front of laptop to do all the work might have made life more easy but surely made people mentally weak.

I am pretty sure that if the world goes back to swords, most won't survive today.

Mental health is mostly measured by how comparatively to others, you are fit for society or not. In my experience that does not make that person anyhow well behaved online/offline. Lot’s of people are healthy jackasses of the worst kind. The Human heart is flawed by nature.