re: Our loneliness epidemic

It is a long read but part of the loneliness epidemic is the rise of the involuntary celibacy movement. One guy is interviewed here. Poor dude whose Dad left him when he was 2 years old, raised by a single mother, who isn't particularly handsome/outgoing/charming and was bullied by girls. No real news that "mean girls" exist but you got to feel for these guys who have not a lot going for them in a culture where their told they have it easy due to "white privilege" but by many objective measures girls are doing better and are catered to in education.

Some idiot in Canada ran over a bunch of folks, mainly women, who was active in the involuntary celibacy movement and that's brought it to light.

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While I have no evidence to counter this it just seems stupid considering just a few decades ago it was common for girls to be married and pregnant by 15 or 16 YO.

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I dont know a single person in their 30s that had parents married with children at 15 and 16. My parents didnt have me until they were in their 30s, and this was over 3 decades ago.

The amount of women with children out of wed lock, especially in south LA, is quite alarming.

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I would seriously consider voting yes to legislation that would end Facebook / Instagram / SnapChat

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Not a very conservative viewpoint.

People are increasingly socially retarded. Nothing new here

I'm not married, in a relationship nor socially isolated but am socially wealthy so I can't relate to this topic.

didn't think it was even possible to be lonely with social media. I remember before social media if there's nobody there, then' you're F%^^#. Now all you have to do is login and boom, friends everywhere

Check out Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

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didn't think it was even possible to be lonely with social media. I remember before social media if there's nobody there, then' you're F%^^#. Now all you have to do is login and boom, friends everywhere

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But none of it is meaningful.

Virtual reality is still, well, virtual.

This goes to one of the reasons that Scruffy avoids the “feel good/pray for...” threads.

Scruffy sees all of that “emotion” as fake. People become angry when you say that, but what meaning does it truly hold?

We are social creatures and crave social interaction.

In the past, we lived in smaller communities. These could be small towns, villages, or even just neighborhoods in large cities.

People had relationships with their neighbors. They knew each other.

None of you could pick Scruffy out of a lineup. We don’t actually know each other.

Social media isn’t even a crutch. It’s a drug which furthers these problems.