@70mile
You know what? When you are finally granted peace, you don't go back to a headache.
@rayasun3468
Unfortunately, I’ve reached the point where I feel it’s healthier to isolate than to socialize. The more experiences I have with people, the more I have to heal.
@KrisHughes
Brilliant quote: "The car privatised our lives and TV privatised our leisure." Yes, I sensed this back in the 60s and 70s when I was a teen.
@markdc1145
Well, this is exactly what corporate America wants! Work us all to the bone and then we struggle to pay all our bills. No time, and especially, no money left for socializing.
@asafmn1983
America is becoming more socially isolated. Officials see this as a crisis, but many people say they actually prefer being alone - suggesting the real problem may be with society itself rather than individual choices.
@i.am.navkaur
Cute ending. I used to be a social butterfly prior to COVID. Almost every evening I would be meeting someone to hang out -- go for a walk, a drink, a meal -- and it was during COVID that I found my inner introvert. I cannot express how much I enjoy my solitude now. It's so peaceful!
@KrisHughes
It's so true. I hate living like this, but it is incredibly difficult to reverse in your own life when no one you know wants to join you.
@fremontpathfinder8463
I love being alone. He's forgetting something else that happened in the late 1960's- the decline of secure union jobs and putting retirement on Americans. Now with inflation and constant work, people have less time to socialize. The rich are not taxed the way they were in from the New Deal to the late 1960's. Costs have risen insanely. This also plays a role.
@Driftbroski686
Watching this sitting at home on a Saturday because I can’t afford a bar tab this weekend not cuz I don’t want to go out and socialize
@beerman204
Smart phones, YouTube, thousands of channels are competing for our relationship time with each other and are winning to a profound degree...
@Justaperson717
You can be solitude and not lonely. Loneliness is just a state of mind.
@michaelbusillo6956
Socializing often costs money, going to the bar eating out with friends... some people just can't afford it.
@AlZ-oy4si
The internet is cheaper than the real world. I can afford the internet. I can't afford the real world.
@ethanddog31
We need walkable cities with free stuff to do.
@Zayden.
I'm overworked and have a lack of paid time off from work. I'm constantly exhausted and overwhelmed. That makes more socializing difficult.
@MethenySco
I tend to think it’s primarily structural. The pressure people are under today, especially financially and in the job market, render them less psychologically available to socialize. Another factor is a breakdown in shared interests, spaces to gather, tradition, and all other contexts that promote interaction. Thirdly we don’t need to rely on people like before for small things- a recipe, advice, a mix tape- because we have everything in one device.
@SapasMons
1) we cant afford to go anywhere 2) we arent safe anywhere we go 3) we dont even like each other 4) technology allows us to gather without going anywhere together.
@ArtDaddy74
People don’t have the money to socialize anymore. A handful do but most don’t. Grabbing a curry and scurrying home is about as far as people can stretch these days. This, like my much of everything else in the culture, is due to the continued trickling up of resource to a handful of very, very rich people. It’s unlikely to change anytime soon and no one really talks about it.
@Liseschiffer
I love to be alone. Hell is other people.
@HedgeFundCIO