25 June

"...more than 40 per cent of 15- to 25-year-olds in Australia reported being lonely." In a kidult culture, anything that isn't constant socialising is a pathology. Friendship is a social tool adolescents use to help become adults. When you don't become an adult because the culture has no mechanism for that any more, you end up feeling 'lonely' because the greater isolation of responsible adult work-life feels so alienating. You then you do bizarre bonding activities like all jumping into cold water together. Or if you're an older man, you join a Men's Shed. Etc.