What the Loneliness Epidemic Says About the Way We Connect
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What the Loneliness Epidemic Says About the Way We Connect
We should at all points spare ourselves the burden of loneliness. We are far from the only ones to be suffering. Everyone is more anxious than they are inclined to tell us. Even the tycoon and the couple in love are in pain. We have collectively failed to admit to ourselves how much anxiety is our default state.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Even on a local scale, the more connected you are, the lonelier you feel. As Freya India wrote on After Babel:
Many of us don’t have friends anymore; we have followers. We don’t deeply care about each other’s lives; we consume them as content. We don’t have people we can be vulnerable with; we have people who view our Stories. It’s hard to tell if w... See more
Sherry Ning • Stop Looking At Each Other
If you see data or reports of people turning inward, becoming less social, going to AI for emotional comfort and counseling, or anything else that might look like convenience over friction, it may not be as simple as that. What I see is exhausted people who feel they are out of options, who have experienced so much fracture that they’re struggling ... See more
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the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
One of the great paradoxes of life today is an ever-increasing level of connectedness, paralleled by increasing levels of fracturing.