Our national loneliness is an 'urgent public health issue,' according to the surgeon general. The time we spend socializing in person has plummeted in the past decade, and anxiety and hopelessness have increased.
Roughly one in eight Americans reports having no friends; the rest of us never see our friends, stymied by the logistics of scheduling in a world that has become much more frenetic and much less organized around religion and civic clubs.
Simply put, America is in a party deficit. Only 4.1 percent of Americans attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; this is a 35 percent decrease since 2004.
What if you could create your own Elks Lodge, even for just a night? ... It's parties, and we need more of them.
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