on loneliness
Samuel Johnson, the literary giant and depressive, found much to fear in the quiet absence of loneliness. His best advice for those of a similarly melancholy disposition was, “If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.” (This quotation I first came across in the wonderful book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by
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the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
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Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?
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The sadness, the dramas, the fractures of other people’s lives as well as the ascensions and the celebrations of other people’s lives. We have done this forever: project our repressed wishes on the lives of what we can call “familiar strangers.”