Dialectics of Decline

Dialectics of Decline

The Human Loneliness Epidemic

Capitalism is killing us

Aug 28, 2025
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Much has been written over the last half decade about the “male loneliness epidemic”, a social crisis where men are less likely to find partners, have social networks, are increasingly isolated from each other and their communities. This framing has always rubbed me the wrong way because I think its focus on a single gender misses the true crisis: lonel…

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