I feel that pain deeply. It's really hard to find intellectual sparring partners IRL. This is probably why I'm so addicted to Bitcoin & Nostr conferences. It's the one place in my life where people want to engage fully in uncomfortable discussions and push their thinking.
What's strange, though, is that I had so many of these friends (and people in my family) growing up but as I've gotten older, more and more people just intellectually check out. 😞
I can't deny it. I find myself engaging socially more frequently through the use of Nostr than IRL. That doesn't mean there has been a complete reduction of face-to-face interaction. There are still certain friends that I see every week. It's just that most people aren't interested in talking in-depth about well... anything, really. They would rather go on and on about working out... or how bad traffic is... or the weather. 😑 If ya want to know what the weather is just look out a damn window.
maybe moving to a city more that 2000 people? 😂
but then there is usually no good nature view
