How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.
According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and a lack of significance in their relationships. Nearly half say they sometimes or always feel alone or “left out.” Thirteen percent of Americans say that zero people know them well. The survey, which charts social isolation using a common measure known as the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, shows that loneliness is worse in each successive generation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html
Wanted to see what others thought of this editorial by the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Chutzpah on his part, I believe.
How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.
According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and a lack of significance in their relationships. Nearly half say they sometimes or always feel alone or “left out.” Thirteen percent of Americans say that zero people know them well. The survey, which charts social isolation using a common measure known as the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, shows that loneliness is worse in each successive generation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html
Wanted to see what others thought of this editorial by the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Chutzpah on his part, I believe.
Interesting to see this given that on the way back home today I saw this billboard:
Interesting to see how Senator Sasse is building on the ideas of Hillary Clinton's It Takes A Village.
The article itself is kind of a cliche, even ending with a variant of Do Unto Others ....or Love Thy Neighbor.
But there is a basic truth that people who are isolated, or who isolate themselves, are easily converted to activities in which they can express their anger.
There's no way stupid people are lonely.
IMO isolation has become part of society as a direct result of communication technology.
Interesting to see how Senator Sasse is building on the ideas of Hillary Clinton's It Takes A Village.
The article itself is kind of a cliche, even ending with a variant of Do Unto Others ....or Love Thy Neighbor.
But there is a basic truth that people who are isolated, or who isolate themselves, are easily converted to activities in which they can express their anger.
I watched Senator Sasse on the Judiciary Committee. Eventually I had to turn the sound off when he talked. He loved pretending to be a non-partisan thinker but always concluded with the same right wing talking points as everyone else.
..... it's a rather major difference that Sasse wants that Village to be a Village, whereas Clinton wants that Village to be Federal Bureaucrats interfering with your life.
Yup.All those bonds of our society that used to hold us together have been straining and breaking... and the result is unhealthy, and sometimes, disastrous.
Clinton notes in the book many institutions responsible in some way for raising children, including: direct family, grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, employers, politicians, nonprofits, faith communities, businesses, and international governmental groups.
:lol: Good Point. Everyone knows it's impossible for a thinking individual operating in good faith to come to differing conclusions than yourself
Interesting to see this given that on the way back home today I saw this billboard:
Notice the blue font for the word "Left"?
Absolutely not what I said. Unlike Senator Sasse, I would never present my political view as being anything other than what they are. Mr Sasse tried to lecture the Committee on being fair and judicious--which he clearly was not.
I see you never read It Takes A Village, just making an assumption on your biased opinion.
That (aside from being a deflection from the thread topic) is YOUR opinion, NOT a fact.
IMO Mr. Sasses is a breath of fresh air, and I admire his views. I think he was right on target during that judiciary hearing.
Now back to the tread issue...what has this to do with a decrease in interpersonal communications and more people becoming isolated leading to "angry politics?"
Absolutely not what I said. Unlike Senator Sasse, I would never present my political view as being anything other than what they are. Mr Sasse tried to lecture the Committee on being fair and judicious--which he clearly was not.
How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.
According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and a lack of significance in their relationships. Nearly half say they sometimes or always feel alone or “left out.” Thirteen percent of Americans say that zero people know them well. The survey, which charts social isolation using a common measure known as the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, shows that loneliness is worse in each successive generation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html
Wanted to see what others thought of this editorial by the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Chutzpah on his part, I believe.
That does, indeed, seem to be what you are saying. Sasse made arguments that are commonly made by conservatives, ergo, he wasn't being fair and judicious.
If you read the editorial--which you did not--you would have know that Ben Sasse's book was discussed.
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