New Cigna Study Reveals Loneliness at Epidemic Levels in America

[Speaker to Animals]

No its not.

Actually, yes, it is. It's already born out by research. Multiculturalism is really bad for society.

You are a crazy person.
You see the same thing everywhere.
Multiculturalism may very well be bad for society.
That doesn't mean its the leading cause of loneliness.

Technology is the leading cause of people getting disconnected from EVERYONE.

You can be a displaced, new white minority that doesn't mean you are lonely.

I am literally just presenting the results of actual research. The guy who found this out was trying to support multiculturalism, and the results shocked him to his core, to the point where he sat on the results for about a decade before choosing to publish.

[Heraclius]

Having the internet doesn’t do much if the survey doesn’t consider groups of people discussing interests through things like discord as “real” interaction.

Obviously the group that grew up interconnected and has an online group of friends about as old as their high school group of friends will stick with their online group of friends during the transition period of college/university. By the survey’s metrics, it makes them lonely.

[DBTrek]

Having the internet doesn’t do much if the survey doesn’t consider groups of people discussing interests through things like discord as “real” interaction.

Obviously the group that grew up interconnected and has an online group of friends about as old as their high school group of friends will stick with their online group of friends during the transition period of college/university. By the survey’s metrics, it makes them lonely.

Why ... it’s almost like the research is slanted so that modern Americans will definitely appear to be the generation “most victimized” by lonliness.

Back in the day when we all lived on family farms, separated from the nearest neighbor by 15 Miles of wheat fields, shit was a lot less lonely. Now though, in modern housing built right on top of eachother, in multi-million population metropolises, and carrying around devices of mass communication at all times, shit is lonely at EPIC proportions. Don’t you all see how we’re suffering?

[Kath]

Truly a first world problem.

People are lonely because they choose to be. Damn; I could be doing something in my community every single night, if we choose.

Ever see an entire family at a restaurant and they are ignoring each other so they can look at their phones? Yeah, I don't allow that. I don't let my family do it and I don't go to dinner with friends who do that to me. (I don't have those kinds of friends.)

I agree with DB on this; the cure is as simple as talking to the person you are eating with.

[Speaker to Animals]

Truly a first world problem.

Balkans
Iraq
Rwanda


Literally everywhere there exist sectarian divides you get this. Not a first world problem at all.

[DBTrek]

Whe you respond to a lonliness post like it was a post about multiculturalism.

[doc_loliday]

My family gets together basically never and when we do its not all that fun. My in laws constantly get together, 2 or 3 times a month, and have huge parties with lots of alcohol. Nobody is lonely there. Having a small or no family, or not seeing your family, is a sure way to become lonely. We're supposed to have these bonds and instead people isolate themselves and are on the internet all day. Reach out to your kin if at all possible, as much as possible, family is one of the most important things in this world.

[DrYouth]

Back in the day when we all lived on family farms, separated from the nearest neighbor by 15 Miles of wheat fields, shit was a lot less lonely. Now though, in modern housing built right on top of eachother, in multi-million population metropolises, and carrying around devices of mass communication at all times, shit is lonely at EPIC proportions. Don’t you all see how we’re suffering?

Back in the day people knew everyone in their local community.
They usually didn't travel out of their local region in their lifetime.
They met in person and socialized face to face.
They didn't have telephones or televisions.
They attended community celebrations many times a year - their identity grew out of their community.

All that has changed in the past century and a half.
Travel is the norm... moving is the norm... we mostly communicate remotely... and less and less face to face.
Meet up. org will allow you to meet another lonely disconnected individual... but not an entire community.

This IS the problem...
ANd the solution is NOT going to come from another technology.

[DBTrek]

You don’t feel at all like a big tent revival preacher warning the masses against the ills of the devil’s radio, do you?

That techno-wizardry, a’comin from Satan himself to waylay our good Christian children. Repent, America, put down your sinful technology before it destroys you!

Right on. A house full of isolated kids in a community of repressed and reclusive farmers was way better off than we are today - because they were safe from Lucifer’s iPhone.

I get it. I just think it’s as ridiculous today as it was when radio, TV, and later, computers were to blame for social ills. But something has to be blamed, right? Blame is always the step that comes right after declaring ourselves victims.

[nmoore63]

Actually, yes, it is. It's already born out by research. Multiculturalism is really bad for society.

You are a crazy person.
You see the same thing everywhere.
Multiculturalism may very well be bad for society.
That doesn't mean its the leading cause of loneliness.

Technology is the leading cause of people getting disconnected from EVERYONE.

You can be a displaced, new white minority that doesn't mean you are lonely.

I am literally just presenting the results of actual research. The guy who found this out was trying to support multiculturalism, and the results shocked him to his core, to the point where he sat on the results for about a decade before choosing to publish.

You are literally crazy.

Loneliness is all about one's personally interactions. That's like 50 people. The problems of multiculturalism is a macroproblem. Loneliness is a microproblem.

Unless you are 1% minority in some place, the demographics have shit to do with being lonely.

Blaming multiculturalism for being a lonely... well that's something a lonely person would say... but changing the macrodemographic of the country would do nothing to make them less lonely.