Posted on 03/17/2024 10:36:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
More and more young people in Germany say they often feel lonely. That poses significant health risks, but researchers say there's also a link between loneliness and anti-democratic attitudes.
Loneliness is often described as a silent pandemic in Germany. The latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office indicate that one in six people over the age of 10 often feel lonely — that's around 12.2 million people.
Loneliness is defined by psychologists as a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships, and is different from social isolation. Statistics show that in Germany young people are the worst affected: A quarter of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they often feel lonely.
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Putting it that way seems to take a lot of the fun out of my experiences. Being an ex-sailor and adhereing to “any port in a storm” I see I was just a self gratifying cad who could get a “woody” thinking about “ boy I’m getting one I hope she don’t notice”. Getting back to lonely though, I was out of port a lot and felt enormously better in port. If that was lonely then I did that and worked hard while I was in port. Regards
The article is discussing a very real and very important phenomenon (even if some of its implicit premises are severely flawed). There are also very real and grave socio-economic and geopolitical ramifications to this problem.
But if you would rather go almost totally off-topic and instead take a stroll down "Memory Lane" and reminisce wistfully about your dating life back in the good ol' 1950s - go to it!
Regards,
Why the hell wasn’t this so impactful 100 years ago professor? Regards
Not until they get better jobs and make more money. Usually, this happens as they get older.
Brick laying, plumber, welding, building houses and things that get you dirty? You mean crap like that? Is that what you’re saying? Damn, that sounds like work. /s
The cost of living is a driving factor.
When my husband and I bought out first home, our mortgage on a brand new 2K house was only 92K right in the heart of DFW.. At the time, we were making 80K.
The same house now sells for $300K.
That means a couple needs to pull in about $250K to keep roughly the same ratio.
We sold that home and bought our 3K house for only $226K. Our home now appraises for 525K. Young people can’t afford it.
I get why they still live at home.
That's "Professor Doctor," to you! (Heh-heh!)
Why this (i.e., "loneliness") either didn't exist to this degree and/or had other causes and/or had other consequences 100 years ago? Because the world - incl. the dating / mating world - has undergone a series of profound transformations in the past 100 years.
Do I need to enumerate them, and explain their respective impacts upon the dating / mating world for you?
The automobile (mobility), the population shift from close-knit rural communities to anonymous urban environs, WWII, the invention of "teenager-hood," the decline of religion, the Birth Control Pill (unleashing female hypergamy), television, no-fault divorce, gay "marriage," sperm banks, freezing ova / embryos, the Internet and online dating apps (contributing to the breakdown in assortative mating), etc.
Need I go on?
Regards,
My youngest has Asbergers.
He tried for years to make friends. No one wanted to hang with the weird kid.
Ironically, he flourish on-line. Had a successful youtube channel, set up servers, gathered friends from across the country. He even has a lovely, very pretty girlfriend (she lives an hour away and they see each other on weekends) and is talking marriage.
It’s a different world and he used technology to his advantage.
But you are correct; there are too many people who live on the computer.
A threat to democracy are those saying it
So men progressed to be pussiefied by idiot professors and parents let it happen. Nice work. Personally I’m In for ,if you can’t take the heat leave the kitchen. I’ve rode harder, dove deeper, loved hard work, and loved one lady over 52 years. If you can’t do that then eff off. Regards.
Some folks use other people as a kind of self-medication. When they are around other people, they can ignore their own problems that need fixing. In other words, they use people as an excuse to procrastinate fixing themselves.
The pain these people define as "loneliness" is nothing more than the discomfort of being confronted by the truth about themselves.
I've probably got it, too.
Regards,
It seems as though your only purpose in entering this thread was to point out that this issue doesn't concern or interest you.
It appears that you have absolutely no desire to attempt to analyze, understand, or explain this phenomenon. You seem to be entirely lacking in empathy.
You offer no solution except, "Do that or eff off!"
That is not a suitable basis for a productive discussion.
Your behavior is comparable to someone entering a thread on, say, the increasing unaffordability of housing for middle class families, only to report: "I don't care! I've got mine!"
This is somewhat off-putting.
Regards,
“have already screwed themselves”? thanks. getting that thought sanitized will take a good part of the day. freepers. they get in your mind and do things.
“all the lonely people, where do they all belong?” just gave me a great idea...a sort of mental health facility where everyone lives in separate tiny cubicles and everyone is also connected with each other 24/7 like in the Truman show. then connect the whole place to its own utube channel. provide food, water, bathrooms and what could go wrong? one last thing...free fentanyl for anyone who repeats the key phrase, “you can check out any time you like, but to can never leave”.
Today’s generation is a people increasingly separated by their connectivity.
Your son created a new normal for himself. Very smart.
It think the big thing is the loss of true friendships. Most people don’t really have friends, but acquaitances.
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