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Are we wildly disconnected? That statement is only true depending on the culture, and even then it would be dubious without a definition of "disconnection" that's measurable.
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Agree with you. I believe younger people are more subject to "social" loneliness. Hundreds of friends on Facebook is no substitution for one good, in-person friend - or a dog, for that matter!
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The family unit is the problem. Outside of the US, families stick together and care for each other. Parents live with their children's families until they die. Here, elders are placed in homes where no one comes to call on them.
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Loneliness for some blessed solitude for others
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Epidemic is the wrong word, but community and social interaction has been declining since the 1880s.
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What about an ignorance epidemic?
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Pessimism and scare-mongering are the real "epidemics".
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There's an epidemic of people using shonky statistics in pop-sci books. Know anyone like that, Steve?
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Even Frum (in Trumpocracy) assigns blame for Trump's green frogs on the milennial loneliness/sexlessness problem
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Is there any research on the impact, + or -, of social interactions that are not valued as ‘meaningful’ on loneliness?
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Ok, after reading your Angels where you so quickly dismissed genetics as the possible force behind decline of violence, I decided not to read your future books. But you still are probably the smartest man alive (after
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Pinker is not the smartest man alive, and neither am I.
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Close enough.
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