Isolated Together: Anxiety, Alienation, and Despair in the Age of Covid

This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny. The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and  what the political prospects moving forward look like. Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

The pandemic has unleashed the age of individualism

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-pandemic-has-unleashed-the-age-of-individualism-11608132621601.html

22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness?fbclid=IwAR1Z7EBeAAXgcUTw5mUA_eOGIQDk_0dM5GUweA6OOv4Fe1B5gbN8qtpCCnc 

Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/04/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance?fbclid=IwAR3FsljvgtF4TqI2DbwJvZFBISsKk-7anRcP0YO-f0F8xLsgh2bqEOnRGOU 

Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Health

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/11/23/isolation-stress-and-poverty-capitalism-and-our-declining-mental-health/ 

Music: Joy Divison- Isolation

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