Ever notice 90% of conversations you hear are people talking about other people? Not even interesting things, just ordinary happenings. I really don’t care about your aunt’s surgery. Your kids don’t need you to gossip about them. How about talking about something interesting, not the bullshit details of someone’s daily life.
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Is it irony that you are talking about other people.
You’ve become the very thing you hate…
Yet your last two comments do exactly that
People talking about other people is one of the primary reasons man evolved from a primitive state to modern home sapiens. Gossip, or clatter about others, led to social structures such as one being considered the head of a group. Over many thousands of years this evolved into more complex structures that allowed for cooperation and collaboration leading to things like hunting parties.
Small people talk about people
Average people talk about things
Great people talk about Star Trek
I know right? I was telling this to my mother the other day, but you know what she’s like…
It’s almost like people get to know each other and grow close by having empathy for each other and learning details about each other’s lives.
Someone needs to read Sapiens
This is definitely an age thing.
All the people 40+ at my job do this, and all my coworkers my age (20s) rarely talk about other people. I’ve found the older the more often it happens