I wish I had more time to write about this, because it's an important topic to me, but I think this actually has shifted over time. I believe it's not a smart p

I wish I had more time to write about this, because it's an important topic to me, but I think this actually has shifted over time. I believe it's not a smart phone / social media thing per se, it's a modernity thing, and that if you go back into premodern times, you'll find it was significantly different, and that loneliness was pretty rare. The part I don't have time to write here is why I think that's true, but I'll say in a too-brief summary: the same tools that allow us to organize ourselves en masse into nations and industries, also necessarily create divisions and isolation that just didn't exist in most of human pre-history, which involved close-knit family and tribal units existing and interacting together and doing meaningful work together throughout their entire lives.