The Examined Path Through Loneliness — the epidemic and the experience

Loneliness has become so common that its ordinariness almost makes it invisible, but the experience of it is not ordinary — it is one of the more acute forms of suffering available to a social creature. The epidemic is real; it is shaped by the structures we have built, the mobility we have normalized, the screens we have substituted for presence. The experience is personal, specific, and worth taking seriously rather than managing.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.