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The Politics Of Loneliness
FiveThirtyEight Politics
The Importance of Being Alone
Informant: Why are we designed to experience loneliness in such severe, unhealthy ways? The theory is that we evolved that way. In earlier societies people who banded together were safer and more likely to pass on their genes. If you're alone, regardless of knowing that mentally, you will feel insecure and be looking for threats and be anxious regardless. We think that that predisposition to social connection has stayed with us in terms of development of social proclivities.
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