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Many of us know exactly what to do with the news reported in 2020 and we’re busy lining our bird cages with it so nature can take its course. We are slowly emerging from the Trump-Woke Progressives-Twitter trifecta that’s left us feeling depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Something is amiss these days, something primal and at the heart of being human. People are social animals-we’ve evolved to live in tribes and rely upon one another, both physically and emotionally as well.
The COVID pandemic brought health manuals the size of a Buick, sheltering-in-place restrictions, and prolonged periods of isolation. We’ve known for some time that being alone is a dangerous situation, but over the past few months, our loneliness has metastasized into a deadly epidemic.
Much of our meaning and purpose in life comes from relationships and our role in society. The human condition relies on connections in general, but it thrives on deep relationships.
Social disconnection is not a recent phenomenon, however. reported that chronic loneliness had become an epidemic by 2018.
Millions of people have been socially isolated for a variety of reasons-separated from society, few personal relationships, and little real communication with the outside world other than through social media. A…
