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TODAY - Joint CPC-CG seminar with the University of St Andrews Population and Health Research Group.

Christina Victor, Professor of Gerontology and Public Health in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University, will discuss whether #loneliness is really bad for #olderpeople, and consider what we should do about it.

Join us online: cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_even

The Atlantic recently published a feature about the loneliness epidemic that many Americans have fallen victim to — by our own doing in many cases. But what if there was a way back in to a healthier social life, one where the phone takes a back seat to meaningful friendships and experiences? There may be, Blair Braverman writes, in “Can Outdoor Friendships Solve the Loneliness Epidemic?” for @outside:

flip.it/Xyc53r

Outside Online · Can Outdoor Friendships Solve the Loneliness Epidemic?By Blair Braverman
"A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors." Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Internet access may make it easier and faster to access information that decreases happiness, but the root cause is that opportunities for young people have decreased and planet is being destroyed in such a way that industrial civilization may no longer be tenable in our old age.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/7/wh

Al Jazeera · Why are young adults less happy than ever before?By Farah Najjar

"#Social #Cocooning" - the "new #desire for #solitude" or "#cultivated #aloneness"

It is apparently this new desire, at the more or less freely selected #loneliness, as cultivated being #alone, the so-called "Social Cocooning" as new #future #trend. This current "#Zeitgeist #phenomenon" I would like to go for given cause therefore once in the following essay in the context of a social-theoretical analysis on the trace.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2022