DonJefe

Friedrich Engels wrote “The Origin of the Family”, by the way, not Marx.

I don’t disagree with your points on alienation, the abstraction of labor, or finding authentic connection through physical craft like leatherwork. That’s all real, and it affects us heavily.

But insistently reframing an offhand vent about the exhausting, arbitrary social scripts of life into a lecture on historical materialism is over-intellectualizing the point. Yes, the economic base influences culture, but neurotypicals didn’t need a bourgeois mandate to invent confusing social etiquette, ambiguous conversational games, and masking.

Not every expression of neurodivergent burnout is a dialectical thesis waiting to happen. Sometimes people are just exhausted by the daily theater of “how you’re supposed to do life,” and you don’t need a reading list to validate that feeling.

This is about societal behavioral expectations, comrade, not material and economic class structures.

No ruling class cabal designed small talk, ambiguous subtext, and sensory overload to extract surplus value from the proletariat. The post is about the exhausting, arbitrary social etiquette neurotypicals made up on the fly. Not everything is Capital. Sometimes people just want to exist without having to perform conversational gymnastics.

This why I don’t buy cheap Chinese devices anymore

You can always map the function keys to custom layers on the keyboards without them. I have a ZSA Voyager, and I created a layer for those function keys that don’t fit in a small 52 key split keyboard. It works great. I just hold down one of the thumb keys, and the functionality of the keys changes to a numpad on the right half of the keyboard and the F-keys and other function keys in the left half.

I used to think that until I got a ZSA Voyager and started using layers for the numpad. Now, I get the best of both worlds: ergonomics of a homerow setup, and a layer that gives me a numpad without having to move my hand to reach the numpad.