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Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

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Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#41
Our built/lived environment is so bad and corrupting after tens (if not hundreds) of years of anti-humanisc approaches to building (including modernism and postmodernism). No incentives for a wider range of housing possibility, like community and social understanding encouraging cohousing or just shared kitchen/reading facilities (apart from very lately apparently purely commercial driven development I've heard about from the US like in SF).

Maybe some post-post-structural theme is emerging. I've seen developments which have elements of that, but I have also seen some of those elements being coopted by modern estate builds (like, well at least from kinds of basic informal security but without internal walkways and personal space in front of flats along the walkways; like surrounded green spaces but that are left to fend for theirs self after build has finished), and that have little relation between integrating working spaces (workshops, community cafes and even theaters, etc.) into the plan, and most certainly no indications of resident open working groups for all aspects of the running of the building almost as a cooperative.

Wake me up when a Timeless Way of Building etc inspired and the like concepts are starting to become somewhat more of part of standard reading/planning/construction. All these new builds recently that are wasting so much already known wisdom and humanist conceptions of how to progress the mental well-being of residents as well as the state of society.

If only architects took on "patterns" in a way that the computer/design community have..

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#42
Yep. Divorced 2017, lost most of my friends due to Brexit then COVID hit. Social life down the pan.

Discovered Meetup earlier this year. Worth looking into it if you’re in a similar situation. No one knows anyone already on it and everyone is still battered from COVID so it’s a good starter for getting back out there and back to being sociable creatures.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#43

It's known since the humanity exists that humans are social creatures, yet we as a society don't do anything to promote social interaction between people. Actually, we are actively suppressing real social contact due to the way our society is set up. - "State / faceless institution" organized social security, reducing the need of social network / safety net. - The rise of "social media" leading to less social interac…

That is only going to happen if you overestimate how many people around you are actually lonely.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#44

Since lockdowns, I hate everybody. I just broke up with the idea that we are a society. No, we’re just insane people who are eating at other people’s sanity, using lockdowns as a means to dismantle our fellow citizen. How to become homeless when you start millionaire and CEO of a small/moderate company? Well this is the first and main step, because on any major problem, you are alone and no-one is going to testify in…

I feel bad about you man, and I wish people in this website could recognize your experience rather than simply downvote it because it is not aligned with their political views.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#45

Since lockdowns, I hate everybody. I just broke up with the idea that we are a society. No, we’re just insane people who are eating at other people’s sanity, using lockdowns as a means to dismantle our fellow citizen. How to become homeless when you start millionaire and CEO of a small/moderate company? Well this is the first and main step, because on any major problem, you are alone and no-one is going to testify in…

I also hate everyone and just want to hurt everyone from now on

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#46

Since lockdowns, I hate everybody. I just broke up with the idea that we are a society. No, we’re just insane people who are eating at other people’s sanity, using lockdowns as a means to dismantle our fellow citizen. How to become homeless when you start millionaire and CEO of a small/moderate company? Well this is the first and main step, because on any major problem, you are alone and no-one is going to testify in…

Go home GPT, you're drunk.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#47

It's known since the humanity exists that humans are social creatures, yet we as a society don't do anything to promote social interaction between people. Actually, we are actively suppressing real social contact due to the way our society is set up. - "State / faceless institution" organized social security, reducing the need of social network / safety net. - The rise of "social media" leading to less social interac…

> "State organized" social security, reducing the need of social network / safety net.

The literally hundreds of thousands of homeless scattered around the United States and Canada and the millions living with daily food insecurity are probably wondering exactly how the "state organized" safety net has reduced their need.

> Covid-19 fearmongering

Current count for COVID-19 deaths in the US is almost 620,000.

I'm not sure what the definition of "fear mongering" is but I'm pretty sure it doesn't include steps to reduce the effect of a pandemic that has killed 620K people in the US alone WITH the mitigations that were put in place.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#48

Since lockdowns, I hate everybody. I just broke up with the idea that we are a society. No, we’re just insane people who are eating at other people’s sanity, using lockdowns as a means to dismantle our fellow citizen. How to become homeless when you start millionaire and CEO of a small/moderate company? Well this is the first and main step, because on any major problem, you are alone and no-one is going to testify in…

I feel bad about you man, and I wish people in this website could recognize your experience rather than simply downvote it because it is not aligned with their political views.

No reason to feel bad. Reactionaries get lots of support on this site. See! Their rant about how all their problems are the fault of feminists and liberals is no longer grey.

Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'

#50
This is a long-term trend in the US. The number of close friends has declined dramatically compared to 1990, even more so for males:

https://twitter.com/dcoxpolls/status/1408415456600395782?s=2...

Was it really a good idea to ban all-male spaces using civil-rights law?

https://twitter.com/herandrews/status/1408429235409141762?s=...

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