>>54829>it makes me wonder what makes long term desires like the ones in this thread and yours so universal.In the general case, imageboards attract a selective group of people, while it of course varies in degree, imageboards tend to attract those who socially mal-adjusted. This is why autists (a condition related the impediment of learning and understanding social norms) and schizos (a group usually rejected from society by estrangement) and those with social anxiety are, on average, the stereotype for who posts on imageboards. Furthermore, they are restricted to those with computer access, and, for the sake of crystal cafe specifically, those who were either brought up in an English speaking country, or have been educated enough to speak it as a second language. Finally, to a lesser extent, you find a stratification of intelligence where you find those with very low IQ and those with very high IQ who have been rejected by the general populace that doesn't understand them as well. With this selective pressure in mind, you find that most long-term dreams are similar in ways related to social norms. A lot of long-term dreams will, on average, contain themes of peace(relief from anxiety or depression), relative social reculsion(less stress from social interactions), some form of mastery (conversely, a form of understanding and appreciation for themselves as inviduals), and, usually being socially ill-adjusted but still carrying base desires, a mate that they do not posses or do posses and guard dearly. Conversely, you will very rarely see a post describing someone's dream of being a major socialite, being invited to all kinds of parties and events, traveling around the world, and living in some high profile penthouse apartment.
Land ownership is also common theme as well, but that's common for anyone in the lower or lower-middle class of first world countries, were property is scarce and expensive.
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