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Why Is the Loneliness Epidemic so Hard to Cure?

Maybe because we aren’t thinking about it in the right way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/magazine/loneliness-epidemic-cure.html?smid=em-share

Philosophize This!  website

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Episode #183 … Is ChatGPT really intelligent?  Stephen West Philosophize

https://youtu.be/8YNyBD6U_h8?si=7yqgzXkYVcC-MaHS

“Harris should seize the opportunity to fully embrace left-wing populism because—despite all the punditry’s moaning about the need to ‘moderate’—populist policies are actually popular,” @Tyler_A_Harper writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/kamala-harris-populism-economics/679492/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Kamala Harris’s proposed federal ban on price gouging might irritate academics—but it makes sense to everyone else. @ZephyrTeachout makes the case for ignoring the economists:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/economists-kamala-harris-price-gouging/679547/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Trump Isn’t Finished

The damage inflicted on the nation during the former president’s first term in office pales in comparison to what he will do if he is elected to a second term.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/opinion/trump-second-term-2025.html?smid=em-share

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many, @nytdavidbrooks writes. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

A disparate group of thinkers argues that the reign of human beings on Earth is nearing its end, Adam Kirsch writes. Should we welcome our demise?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social