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Choosing The Sugar Over The Sustenance

Choosing The Sugar Over The Sustenance

Why you are lonely and why social media cannot help you

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Rod Graham
Nov 25, 2022
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A common critique of modern society is that we are atomized individuals spending too much time doom scrolling on smartphones and binge-watching television shows. We are less likely to have close friends and less likely to be involved in our local communities.

We are lonely.

The theories from a 19th-century sociologist can help us understand why we are so …

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