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Heroic individualism’s incessant drive to be “productive,” “optimized,” and “efficient” often crowds out time and energy otherwise spent forging close bonds, both to other people and to traditions, crafts, and lineages that provide a sense of belonging.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
Loneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face. ... See more
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
We live in a time of such confusion and rancor, with a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes.... See more
We chase the approval of strangers on our phones.
We build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone.
We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the tim