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Recently my guest writer,
Derek Thompson took his family out to dinner and noticed that while the restaurant was bustling,
he and his family were the only people actually sitting down to eat.
Every few minutes, a flurry of people would walk in, grab bags of food and walk out.
The restaurant's bar counter had become, as he puts it,
a silent depot for people to grab food to eat at home in solitude.
In February's issue of the Atlantic, Thompson writes about the phenomenon he calls the antisocial century.
More people are choosing isolation over hanging out with others, and we can't blame it all on COVID 19.
This trend started before the pandemic.
The problem is that humans by nature are social beings, and the consequences of isolation are stark.
Our personalities are changing, as well as our politics and our relationship to reality,
former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said.
We're in the midst of a loneliness epidemic.