[Manthink]

This is scary beyond what we know....Not only are Americans divided, financially challenged, homeless, insecure, radicalised with mistrust and sick...they are also unknowingly being consumed by loneliness due in large part of individualism.

...Sometimes get lost in the fervor for character-driven stories of individualism.
Those omissions continue. Fueled in part by pandemic distrust, a latter-day strain of individual-over-community sentiment often paired with invocations of liberty and freedom occupies a significant chunk of the national conversation these days — to the point where advocacy about community thinking is sometimes met with accusations of socialism....