grafro86

I live in London as well and it is so multicultural that trying to talk about the many pitfalls of Islam and the swiss cheese state of the border can be a challenge to put it lightly. Sometimes I feel like I'm a hermit because even though I'm surrounded by loads of people everyday on the tubes, buses and streets; It feels like I'm just walking among drones or indoctrinated zombies. Conversations with these type of people seems to never divert from the menial and trivial. So many people have no idea that they adopt auto-pilot style monologues where the structure of the conversation goes something like: "Hiya, you alright?" to which a response will usually be a curt "yeah, you?!" "yeah"...and the conversation reaches its natural end. Its so disheartening when you genuinely want to have a dialogue with individuals that question conventional norms not as a way of attacking them, but rather because of curiosity and to increase our knowledge. If certain negative aspects of a particular topic come out of having an honest conversation, then people shouldn't take this as a judgement on themselves but rather treat it as a revelation! I've come to the realisation that most of what I would call "my tribe" i.e. the tribe of thinkers as Stef puts it will be found in communities like this online.