The Politics of Loneliness

Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut has taken up this issue, and he actually wrote about it for the bulwark in an article titled The Politics of Loneliness. He blames a lot of this on social media, but he also says that the decline in churches, sports teams, civic clubs, labor unions, and business organizations is also to blame. So if you kind of solve the aloneness piece first, then maybe the social media piece becomes less important,. Well, I want to say, no, I absolutely agree, but it's also a two-way street. What we know about screens is that they are specifically designed to capture and hold our attention because there's money to be made.