Sixty-eight years ago, American sociologist David Riesman authored a book about the post World War II (American) middle class, The Lonely Crowd, regarded by his peers at that time through to our present day as the 'most influential book of the 20th Century."
The phenomena of feeling alone in a culture with more and more means of social interaction almost on a daily basis is so widespread here in 2018 across our planet, except possibly in some of those "shithole/shithouse countries," that it's really not a phenomena at all, but a somber frame of reference and also a source of concern by all manner of mental health organizations.
Great Britain, which is about to gain a Princess, while losing the entire European Union has made news, assuming a failure can report other than fake news. And while the sun always sets on the British Empire, Britons, great and small, rather than tell their troubles to the hand can share their blue mood with Tracey Couch, the first-ever Minister for Loneliness. Winston Churchill would swell with pride and wonder if this, perhaps, was their finest hour.
"Just take a seat they're always free; No surprise, no mystery.
In this theater that I call my soul, I always play the starring role."
-bill kenny
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