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Loneliness: The Silent Pandemic
All Together. All Connected. But All Isolated, Separated and Alone
The message is clear: We must create a path to human connection and interaction, if we care about humanity, civility, health and wellbeing.
Lest it has been forgotten, artificial/virtual relationships aren’t the cure for loneliness - they’re a symptom of it.
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Preface
From time immemorial the yearning for meaningful and shared togetherness has always been powerful. This is what makes us human.
But, today, in this digital/virtual world, I am worried about lonely educators and students, lonely politicians and lonely economists, lonely technology/ IT/computer games designers and developers, lonely children and lonely youth, lonely nurses and doctors, lonely artists and filmmakers, lonely parents and grandparents,...lonely people everywhere…beautifully summed up by the Beatles in Eleanor Rigby:
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
The loneliness epidemic is the blight on our humanity
Rethinking Loneliness: Harnessing New Approaches
A retired academic economist trying to explain how modern life is making us so lonely.
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As I was reading about this fascinating book, I could not believe my eyes, how much and how deeply it was resonating with me, my life, my journey, pain, healing, finding joy, appreciating mother nature, finding solace in poetry and much more. This is why I am so happy for the opportunity of sharing this with you, the reader and visitor of this website. So come along and let us journey together, you, me and Esther Rutter.
But, first, I must note why and how Rutter's book and journey so much resonates with me. To this end I can do no better than sharing the following links with you. Please have a look and you will discover amply for yourselves:
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Small is beautiful is the antidote to the vandalism and vulgarity of neoliberalism, the ideology that has always championed greed and envy, amongst other human vices.
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“If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures. If whole societies become infected by these vices, they may indeed achieve astonishing things but they become increasingly incapable of solving the most elementary problems of everyday existence.”
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