Most of us know the warnings: loneliness is worse for our health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The statistics are astonishing: hundreds of millions of lives lived in quiet solitude, and billions of dollars are spent on related health care. What is the cause? Is there a cure?

Talk About Lonely investigates both the obvious causes of today's loneliness epidemic — smartphones, dating apps, social media, remote work, urbanization, the pandemic, A.I. — and deeper systemic factors including corporate control of the media, social systems that prioritize individual gains over community well-being, systemic inequality, and broader neoliberal policies.

Featuring insightful and honest commentary from philosophers, psychologists, gerontologists, young teens, long-married seniors, and unconventional voices such as an OnlyFans creator, a bishop in his empty church, and stand-up comedians, Talk About Lonely presents evocative images of our many states of both disconnection and re-connection.

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