Overcoming loneliness is hard for everyone, not just for nerds. It is difficult to overcome loneliness because the entire society is affected by several megatr

Overcoming loneliness is hard for everyone, not just for nerds. It is difficult to overcome loneliness because the entire society is affected by several megatrends which enhance loneliness, perhaps even leading to positive feedback. In no particular order: On economical level, neoliberalism and privatization encourages loneliness. On community (City) level, urban planning is designed to make inner cities more inhabitable, at least the common spaces (again by privatization, surveillance, optimizng cities for traffic flows, the need to have a car, increasingly long commutes requiring people to spend more time alone). Urban Living spaces are unaffordable requiring people to work more. Rural areas are also affected. This has lots of consequences for loneliness. On workplace level, remote work, outsourcing; more and more jobs hat require constant screen-staring; modern management methods and the digital whip, union busting and many other innovations increase loneliness. On individual level, stress, e.g. from constant pressure at work, and too high performance levels expected, increase sickness and then loneliness. Aging societies and decades of accumulations of unhealthy lifestyles do their part. Long-Covid is a mass-disabling event leading to more loneliness. You get the idea. I could go on. And I don't have a recipe to "overcome loneliness". It's like overcoming wetness. It is impossible - when everyone is swimming in a sea of loneliness.