Actual source: https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely-alone-surgeon-general-c44798ddbe95d9e3da1367cefd25ec93 https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely

Actual source: https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely-alone-surgeon-general-c44798ddbe95d9e3da1367cefd25ec93 https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely-alone-surgeon-g... Actual author: https://www.google.com/search?q=TED+ANTHONY https://www.google.com/search?q=TED+ANTHONY - This is a strange article. It reads like propaganda designed to demoralize and denigrate. "“Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it ... throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”" & "In the age before democracy, for better and for worse, “People weren’t lonely. They were tied up in a web of connections. And in many countries that’s more true than it was in the United States,” says Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Woodard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Woodard Now Colin is another author, but just a bit of googling and I'm pretty sure the Associated Press is misusing his words - note Colin actually said in this completely contextless quote "more true than it was in the United States". So apparently the dreaded disease of "democracy" (or wait, I thought it was the "American Dream") had not prevented "communities" in USA. Heck, calling UTAH and the "community" of Mormons, among a large number of such communities in the dreaded US of A. Anyway, maybe someone should ping Colin and ask him: did you really say that Democracy aka "the American Dream" was a cause of breaking of community in the US? So, dear reader, please note that "American Dream" == "democracy", And that "dream" (abhorant to 'un-lonely' "Old World aristocracies") is the cause of your modern malaise. (Much more correlated with economic regime than political regime, imo.) Now the question presents itself: Just how did these misguided Americans with their "dream" of "democracy" make it from 19th to 21st century? Apparently we were caught in the spell of "a premise based on myths" and simply didn't realize we got it so wrong! Thank you AP and Ted for clearing this up for us. Alienation & loneliness are symptoms of modernity, not "individualism". Representative democracy actually promotes creation of elective communities -- note how the designated binary teams of "red" and "blue" factions in US cling to one another .. -- whereas "Old World aristocracies" were communities of blood and soil. Has AP gone fascist or something?