I’ll never understand why people are so conditioned to ask the | LAURA LOOMER

I’ll never understand why people are so conditioned to ask the question “how are you”.

Nobody really cares when they ask, as I have found, being the talkative person I am.

Have you noticed people ask with the expectation of a scripted answer?

“How are you”

“Good, you?”

One deviation from the script and you are foreign. People have been conditioned to not answer that question honestly. If you don’t reply with the standard “good, you?” It tends to kill the conversation temporarily or forever. If you ask someone “how are you”, they walk right past you and don’t say a word, even if you really want to know how they are doing.

I think “how are you” is one of the most useless questions ever inserted into everyday human discourse for this reason. It’s lost all sincerity due to societal decay.

These days, mundane Small talk makes people feel comfortable with the fake realities they have constructed for themselves so they can keep ignoring all that isn’t fine.

Point this out and you’re “confrontational” or “argumentative”.

It’s very bizarre to me, and always will be how people prefer lies over honesty. Honesty and directness are supposed to be virtues. Compassion and empathy are supposed to be virtues.

People claim to want empathy, honesty and truth, but they repel it when it’s presented to them.

Society in its current state, has made me prefer no talk over small talk.

I don’t know about others, but I genuinely want to know how people are doing when I ask. Not just have boring mundane small talk about things that don’t matter.

The world has become such a weird, robotic place.