Lonely is the sensation that you don't share anything meaningful with other people. The feeling of loneliness does not track at all with how many people you interot with every day. As a society, as a culture, we have become much more driven by these external motives over time. It's like we're being fed kind of k f c for the one model of social media and our consciousness in the current zeitgeist. And i think what you say so in point about Naa nea? That it is constantly jolting us towards extrinsic values.
What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.