Viewpoint

“All our lives, introverts have known there was something wrong with large parties. We just couldn’t quite put our finger on what it was. We now look prescient rather than merely neurotic. I have never known an introvert who washed his or her hands fewer than a dozen times a day; it’s our version of calisthenics. Hugs, long a source of terror for us, are now generally understood to be as violent and unwelcome as decapitation. The elbow bump is a social greeting most introverts can live with, far superior anyway to the viral autobahn of the handshake. The social order has been upended, and extroverts find themselves living in the introverts’ world.”

Andrew Ferguson in TheAtlantic.com

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