"Starting in the nineteen fifties, and going all the way through to today, we know that people have been less and less invested in other people,” he says in the Big Think video above. "In some studies, as many as 60 percent of people will say that they feel lonely much of the time," a feeling "pervasive across the world, across all age groups, all income groups, all demographics."
"Having an extensive network of friends is no guarantee against loneliness," writes the late sociologist Ray Oldenburg in The Great Good Place. "Nor does membership in voluntary associations, the 'instant communities' of our mobile society, ensure against social isolation and attendant feelings of boredom and alienation."
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