Loneliness

Technologically-mediated communication is creating the global epidemic of loneliness. Alienation and emptiness is a signal amplified by our ubiquitous and omnipresent sense and experience of contemporary connectivity, an inward-turning inflection of systemic extensibility for which we are quite poorly prepared by the majority of our evolutionary history. Kindness fades in these moments as everyone struggles to manage the cognitive burden of all this complexity and is offsetting their unmanageable entropy to everyone else. It is really quite turbulent and impersonal but in some unexpected way, this is a large part of the human experience of themselves and each other at the moment. It’s real, it’s not great, but it’s not really something we either should or can ignore.