While you were in school, the joint experience was shared by a lot of people. Everyone knew about the fire drill or the whole school knew the football team. The common ground was forced upon you. Now in the adult world people have to find their own common ground. Some are learning to trust their government to provide, while also seeing how distrustful it can become. Others are following blind nationalism. This presents a challenging balancing scale, most people do not want to tip. This ties back to our community building, we were not taught how to connect with those who did not have a previous common ground. COVID made this worse for many of us. It is going to be hard to make small talk, when you are used to being able to bring up events. You are not weird for hating small talk, talks about weather, or if you don’t care about their kids' latest soccer game. It is hard to not want to talk about things that you think should be common ground…. shall we say revolution? When something is so plain to us, we may lean to think it is common for everyone.