This is why I love hubski. I have very strongly disagreed with you in the past, to the point of emotional over-reaction but this thread shows me how we're probably more similar than we are different. Books are a fantastic response to loneliness. I have always felt a peace in reading a physical, turn the pages book that is almost impossible to replicate.
You could probably relate to any one Hubski user, given enough time. We are all here through a number of traits; those who don't possess such traits don't seem to stay here for long. I imagine that it's through those traits that we might find a finer common ground than through our differences a bigger chasm - likely those traits are deeper than our disagreements. On that note, when I received that reply in my hubskiwheel responses page, I couldn't reply back because I was "muted", which, clearly, isn't the case - nor has it been the last few times (some of which I've dismissed as true without checking). mk, is that a bug?