Justifications for Insufficient Solitude

Exploring the depths of human disconnection

1. Social media is a form of self-imposed solitude.

By curating a highlight reel of your life, you're actually creating a curated highlight of your isolation.

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2. The city is a place where people are always alone together.

Where else can you simultaneously feel seen and unseen?

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3. The pursuit of productivity is a euphemism for the avoidance of human connection.

Meetings, emails, and to-do lists are just a series of excuses to not actually talk to people.

Read more about the productivity pyramid scheme

4. The internet is a never-ending series of rabbit holes.

Where else can you spend hours staring at cat videos and calling it "research"?

Read more about the internet as infinite solitude machine