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The Anti-Social Century – Your Community Can Do Better
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Self-imposed solitude might just be the most important social fact of the 21st century in America. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many observers have reduced this phenomenon to the topic of loneliness. In 2023, Vivek Murthy, Joe Biden’s surgeon general, published an 81-page warning about America’s “epidemic of loneliness,” claiming that its negative health effects were on par with those of tobacco use and obesity. A growing number of public-health officials seem to regard loneliness as the developed world’s next critical public-health issue. The United Kingdom now has a minister for loneliness. So does Japan.
Socially underdeveloped childhood leads, almost inexorably, to socially stunted adulthood.
Many more articles discussing the epidemic of loneliness.
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Does your community have “Sit here if you’d like to have a conversation” benches?
One of the worst epidemics in our society is loneliness. These benches are a very simple early stage way to address this and help people feel like they’re not alone.
