(March 22, 2025 at 11:42 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: Is the topic of "male loneliness" clickbait? Perhaps, but for those experiencing it, it can lead to reduction in mental and physical health.
This sounds right to me. Some people who want clicks may be sensationalizing it, and playing up the threat from those scary Incels.
But there are still a lot of lonely people out there. And I think we can point to a number of societal changes in the last generation or so which will tend to keep people lonely.
When the whole "post-modern" thing got going, people talked about "simulacra." About how parts of our lives that used to be rooted and real are now replaced by simulations. So we have made-for-TV politics, that don't change anything (or do the opposite of what the promised). And on-line friends who won't be coming to your funeral. And of course an enormous porn industry, which is easier and emotionally safer than actually trying to connect with a girl.
Not that any one of those things creates loneliness, but they don't help either.
