Study for college. Seriously, just allocate many hours a day for it. it’s boring at first but gets better after a while. You don’t have to go to an Ivy League, any mid-range state college will have cool people and walkable infrastructure. If you don’t have a lot of money, do the first couple years at a community college and talk to counselors to make sure the credits transfer. Once you’re in college, be proactive and seek more advice.
FWIW the number of Active Users on Lemmy + KBin has levelled off recently: fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse(i.e. maybe we’ve stopped losing users from the summer influx? Or maybe lurkers are now commenting more?)
Yeah, when I read that book I was like: this reminds me of that time I freaked out in high school!
I admire the fact that the author put it online for free, and it’s a pretty good book, but it could have been better… Watts could have taken all those ideas about consciousness and humanity and produced something like 1984 or Catch-22 that embodies ideas that might otherwise get lost in abstractions. Unfortunately the ideas all get a little muddled.