In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not that is true, there has been an epidemic of articles about loneliness lately, and the question is what to make of it all. Some writers say that loneliness is in fact a fairly recent emotion that did not exist, or at least was not regarded as important, before the great turn away from traditional collectivism towards modern individualism in the late 18
March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023
In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not that is true, there has been an epidemic of articles about loneliness lately, and the question is what to make of it all. Some writers say that loneliness is in fact a fairly recent emotion that did not exist, or at least was not regarded as important, before the great turn away from traditional collectivism towards modern individualism in the late 18