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The writing on this subject I’ve found most interesting is Rosie Spinks’ “The Friendship Problem,” which argues that informal friendships have died in part due to the rise of social media and the desire to optimize our lives. This loss of this informal friendship gives rise to the formal friendship – think painstakingly planning hangouts weeks in... See more

“It’s a lot easier to not be an asshole when you’re not obsessed with performing dominance

a Belgian-American psychotherapist who studies human relationships: “Modern loneliness masks itself as hyper connectivity. And so people have easily 1000 virtual friends, but no one they can ask to feed their cat.”

“This city will always pursue you,” wrote the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy

In Whitstable, a night in a fishing hut—a glorified shed—can cost £375. The housing crisis attracts much comment; the hotel crisis less so.

It will be said that while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours’ work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world it is a condemnation of our civilization; it would not have been true at any earlier period. There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness... See more

If we’re not supposed to dance, why all this music?