The Negative Repercussions of Social Isolation

The US Surgeon General's office just put out an advisory, which is kind of like major paper that they think everyone in the entire health sector should be paying attention to this topic as a major feature for the future. The WHO is also setting up commission specifically to be studying this issue of loneliness and social isolation. There's a very famous argument from Hannah Arendt at the end of origins of totalitarianism that the idea of social disembedding of not having a context for belonging that has longevity to it is also one of the principal conditions for authoritarianism. And actually totalitarianism so a further iteration.