#loneliness

Charle’s Portis is known for ‘True Grit’, but for me it pales to the rest of his works. Sit for a spell and I shall tell you of the his book, the Master’s of Atlantis. I shan’t spoil it. A young G.I. is in Europe waiting for a boat back to the U.S., he meets a man who eventually claims to be part of a mystical ancient order. The G.I. is gullible and falls for the ploy, while us the reader is well aware it is a con. Well let’s just say he goes back to America, takes it rather seriously, and ends up starting his own very well-natured, well, cult. It’s got schisms and schemes and a happy ending. And I think I love the work of Charles Portis because similar to Kurt Vonnegut, he illustrates loneliness in a tender and vulnerable way. Also: There is an elaborate B-plot featuring a young con-man wanna-be who starts a venture in the Colorado mountains to grow fast growing weeds in the soil to grind down to recover gold. Also I didn’t know Conan O’Brien had kind things to read about it, but I can see how he would like it too. #Bookstodon #EnglishLit #AmericanLit #20thCenturyLit #Humanism #Loneliness

Please SHARE! A NEW Report that maps the multi-billion-dollar industry built on the #loneliness, #economic #anxiety, and identity of #men. It presents itself as the antidote to a society that has failed men — then sells them the very things that keep them isolated, financially drained, and psychologically dependent on the young men profiting from their struggle. #Grift #economyhttps://www.equimundo.org/resources/the-grift-economy/

Feeling extremely alone in the world lately. I have been trying to fight this off by trying to do more socializing and working out. But it is still a rough time. #mentalhealth #loneliness #sad #anxiety

I contributed to a report for the WHO Behaviour and Cultural Insights Hub, so that's pretty cool. It's about how history (all sorts of times, contexts and considerations) can inform how we think about and address loneliness today, and is a super interesting read: https://bci-hub.org/documents/history-loneliness-what-we-know-so-far #history #loneliness

Photographer Spends Six Years with Chilean Ranchers Who Live in Isolation https://petapixel.com/2026/06/28/photographer-spends-six-years-with-chilean-ranchers-who-live-in-isolation/ #photographybook #loneliness #Features #ranchers #chile

The office doesn't fix loneliness at work https://www.fastcompany.com/91564001/the-office-doesnt-fix-loneliness-at-work #Workplace #Loneliness #FutureOfWork

"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds" From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/ "The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment. 'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release. 'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'" #NoAI #Loneliness

The myth of cozy community: Why your search for the perfect Church is making you lonelier We are living through a relational crisis unlike anything in modern history. #Community #isolation #sacrifice #loneliness Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/why-your-search-for-the-perfect-church-is-making-you-lonelier.html #Faith #ChristianNews #Bible

Psychology says the loneliness epidemic in people's thirties isn't caused by social media or introversion — it's the first decade where maintaining friendships requires deliberate effort rather than structural proximity, and almost nobody was taught how to do that https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/j-a-y-psychology-says-the-loneliness-epidemic-in-peoples-thirties-isnt-caused-by-social-media-or-introversion-its-the-first-decade-where-maintaining-friendships-requires-deliberate-effort-rather-than/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F Robin Dunbar, the Oxford evolutionary psychologist who gave us the famous "Dunbar's number" — the idea that humans can maintain roughly 150 stable … #wellness #health #psychology #loneliness