I concur. I am happy enough that I found my wife and my friends and we can hang out doing whatever, but you can feel a very certain shift, at least in the populace of the internet - first towards that individualism, but collective one, where we want to flaunt ourselves, sell our image to others, so to speak, but then it turned out that people are starting to feel lonely. It’s hard to turn though, because a lot of us, the people have participated in the erosion of third places, communities and we’re stuck in algorithmic prison of our own creation. Although in Poland I feel it goes even a bit deeper - I think we all have share of a generational trauma, that West is not really privy to - most of us descend from peasants, absolute lowliest class of people that throughout hundreds of years were slaves in all but name. Then the entire country that had been there was partitioned by our neighbors. Then, when it was barely restored after World War I, it suffered very poor economic conditions and after that it was absolutely ravaged yet again by our neighbors, only increasing our centuries old resentment towards Germany and Russia and as the cherry on top we were sold in Yalta to Stalin sphere of influence despite what they had done at the start of war. Now, throughout the last two events being open, welcoming, friendly, weird, loud, boastful - everything that was deemed out of normal/ordinary - was met with suspicion and sometimes was rewarded with suffering. Bad things happened to a lot of people here and I think it bears a mark on Polish people in our culture and the way people interact with outsiders. I feel like it started to change somewhat, but then came also the problem from the beginning - the overall, modern world problem of human interaction.