Although this essay was about travel, I found several of the comments very interesting - author Frank Bruni says within "...In theory the Internet, along with its kindred advances, should expand our horizons, speeding us to aesthetic and intellectual territories we haven’t charted before. Often it does.
But at our instigation and with our assent, it also herds us into tribes of common thought and shared temperament, amplifying the timeless human tropism toward cliques. Cyberspace, like suburbia, has gated communities." Food for thought anyway at what we are becoming as technology zooms forward. I am thinking too about how we are all here due to an interest in simple living though we have different cultural points of view yet usually manage to get along.
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). The thing is society mostly encourages introverts to be more extroverted and not to exploit their introversion. By which I mean avoid all people always and do it to ever greater degrees - preferably NEVER leave the house - tell you can say you go weeks at a time without talking to anyone. Oh wait no that's not what I mean 
. Exploiting introversion - what I really mean is to really explore the inner world. Because if you're introverted enough you're already so inclined but probably never considered it an asset. Not necessarily toward fun and profit (having the things we are supposed to pursue), though it's possible some might come incidentally, but toward inner growth.
