Sublime

Sociologists have been aware for some considerable time that social networks decline progressively as we enter old age.

Mammals evolved to build social attachments in youth. In the modern world, we break these attachments and expect to build new ones. But new oxytocin circuits are more fragile than the ones built through extensive contact during your myelin years. Often, we fail to replace the old herd with a new one. That’s why we often end up feeling threatened