The Atomized American In The Age Of Anomie. AGAIN!

Same old shit, different yet repetitive day. Steve M. has seen it before.

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart  —  When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.  —  Mr. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.  —  America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.  —  According to a recent large-scale survey … (SURVEY SEZ! — M.B.)

Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:   FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FOR WHITES  —  This is your semi-regular reminder that the op-ed page of The New York Times employs two insufferable columnists named Brooks who write incessantly about our national anomie and why it's never, ever the result of conservative policies. Arthur C. Brooks, like his namesake David, believes we're just lonely, and it's killing us, as well as making us kill one another ...

Ann Althouse / Althouse:   “Nearly half [of Americans] say they sometimes or always feel alone or ‘left out.’ …

In contrast, something new, at least to the staff here. Hell, wouldn't have bothered w/ any of this if not for the musical selections, & 50+ yrs. later, we found the "SPECIAL DISC JOCKEY RECORD" version, over twice as long as the album track.As if anyone gives a good gawddamn.