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Rationalising my feelings of social anxiety by adopting the view that I should not be socialising with my "intellectual inferiors" anyway: one must choose to be social or intelligent. When I entered university and met people I considered intellectual peers I was hardly able to socialise with them either because my social skills were so inadequate. Post-university it still took me a few years working at a low-paid job with a forced social element (working at a shop in a shopping mall) to kickstart my social development.
The converse mistake also occurs: see the second paragraph of this.
A large part of this is probably the homogeneity effect. When you are surrounded by similar individuals, you tend to be happier. Would a conservative person be happy in this setting?
Well, he did not say that “awesome” is a one-place word. ;-)
IF that's the case, perhaps the thing to "bottle up and export" is the idea that people should be pro-active about getting involved with groups which share common interests and values to themselves.
Modern life puts a lot of diverse groups into contact with each other. Not only that, the information age makes it so that some people have culture imprinted from written material and no one in their geographic range shares their values. The internet can re-create the ancestral conditions of homogeneity.
I'm all for conservatives having their church groups and stuff if it makes them happier and healthier, even if I don't agree with the values around which they congregate. But I'd be somewhat concerned about intensifying polarization of attitudes if this were to become a thing.