Post-individualism

Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.

we grew up and got it drilled into us that the problem is dependence. Don’t be needy.

Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals

Of course families have fallen apart in every generation. But even a few decades ago children from broken homes had communities, they had neighbourhoods. Now our families fall apart and there is nothing, nobody, to catch us. We live far from extended family. We are more estranged than ever. And I can’t get across how little familiarity Gen Z has

All this to say, being abandoned is not trivial. Not only having divorced parents, but being cut off from community, from culture, from all sources of support. Maybe it means more to you than you are letting on. Feel it, grieve it. Then turn that disappointment into determination. Nothing’s guaranteed, but we can take the pain and put every inch of