In Episode 40, we look at the art of making friends while cancelled. We live in a hyper-alienated time, when more people than ever before report having few or no close friends. On top of that, renewed puritanical impulses within the culture threaten to exile already-atomized people from what little community they have left. In such a context, how are we to create and nurture meaningful connections and break the isolation so poisonous to the human spirit?
SHOW NOTES:
30% of Millennials say they are often or always lonely. 20% report having no acquaintences at all
Hikikomori, the Japanese phenomenon of extreme social isolation is going global
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Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.
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