Over lunch this week I was listening to Dennis Prager on the radio for a few minutes. I just caught a small chunk of his comment that hour, but he mentioned that many Americans are so lonely now because they stay alone int heir own homes with allegiance to their electronic devices, not out in the community with family, friends and neighbors, spending hours with and relating to and with others, like they used to do 80 years ago before all of this technology was available and so addicting.
He has a point: we need community, friends, and a sense of warm relations with others.
On the other hand, this self-isolating that millions of American adults are engaging in is a blessing in disguise. It is loosening up the plague of group-living, altruist ethics and no nonindividuating that has jaded, held back, and suppressed human gain for 20,000 years.
We need to use this loneliness, a blessing and opportunity, to personally transition and convert it into a life of productivity and creative output, by self-realizing, individual-living and egoist ethics, while still enjoying warm community living and bonding with others to cure the residual loneliness that bothers us. We can and should have our cake and it eat it too.
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