10 July

We’re born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. True adult culture understands this, kidult culture never can, it craves continuous social life. That’s what adolescents do, it’s their appropriate stage of development, but now extended to all ages. That social life in turn is paradoxically violent and harms those who pursue it. All sociality is violence, because the essence of it is imitative rivalry, the battle for social status, that all social animals take part in. True freedom and happiness is being alone, not needing others. Still enjoying the company and love of others, but not needing it. Only then can you truly love, and be a good (non-needy) friend. This epidemic is mostly fake. It’s the imploding of kidult culture, in the face of the basic challenges of adult life. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf