Oddly enough, Reddit helped me. Before last week, I was a daily visitor to Reddit, would spend hours perusing comment threads. Over time, I started to notice patterns, outliers; and at the same time I found myself growing slowly anesthetized to what I previously found hostile and insulting. I became less of a social justice warrior, learned to appreciate chaos, conflict. In being exposed to a wide variety of voices, hostility, ignorance and whatnot, I learned to take it less personally, to lower my expectation, and I became more detached, c'est la vie. Whereas before I was a ragged monkey caught in the fray, voice getting clobbered in the din, feeling attacked and confused... now I am the monkey sitting up in a tree, quietly munching on leaves, watching with a calm smile all the drama of the monkeys on the ground.