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Joan Willett's avatar

Darren, your description of loneliness is painfully right-on, and got me thinking (as you always do): are we not ALL to blame for this? Sure, the perfect storm of COVID’s isolationism and social media has been devastating , but are we not also to blame, for holding our phones closer than we hold our own children (universal term here)? Are we not to blame for our failure to teach the children how to properly use this (phone) amazing tool created by the human mind? Do we share the blame for the violence resulting from such despair and desperation? You bet. Now the question is…what do we do about it?

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Caz Hart's avatar

de Bottom's observation is immovably true, it informs an awful lot of personal struggles, even for the objectively thriving, in modern life. Maybe this isn't how humans were meant to live.

Of course, there would be many people who have unknowingly created and maintained their own group of 20 or 30, and would no doubt be better off, physically, emotionally, psychologically.

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