Interesting. No one has yet mentioned today's lack of community.
We don't share a sense of place any more, we move around from job to job, families spread around the country or globe. We rarely share an emotional connection and sense of place with our neighbours that our grandparents would have known. We haven't even kept the sense of virtual community that the BBS's had - social networks amplify dissent and engagement, not friendship and connection.
That's before you get to the amount of divorce and people living alone, with less and less free time or money outside of work.
I'm not the least bit surprised loneliness is becoming a global epidemic.
We don't share a sense of place any more, we move around from job to job, families spread around the country or globe. We rarely share an emotional connection and sense of place with our neighbours that our grandparents would have known. We haven't even kept the sense of virtual community that the BBS's had - social networks amplify dissent and engagement, not friendship and connection.
That's before you get to the amount of divorce and people living alone, with less and less free time or money outside of work.
I'm not the least bit surprised loneliness is becoming a global epidemic.