If you want to know your past, look at your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions. advertisement advertisement Early in 2006, Joyce Vincent, a middle-aged woman, was discovered dead in her London flat. There was nothing remarkable about this, except for the fact that she’d been dead for more than two years and her television was still on. How could this happen? Where was everyone? The answer, of course, was that everyone was somewhere else. London, like most major cities, no longer has neighborhoods; it has collections of individuals leading increasingly isolated, selfish, and narcissistic lives. Neighbors keep to themselves, and people don’t ask questions or volunteer information. In an age when everyone is increasingly connected to everyone else through the Internet, nobody really knows anyone any more. We have lots of friends, but few of them dig deep to understand our hopes and fears. The general feeling is that you’ll live longer if you keep yourself to yourself. In Japan there is a social phenomenon called ‘hikikomori’. The phrase roughly translates as ‘withdrawal’ and refers to boys who retreat into their bedrooms and rarely, if ever, come out. In one case… Read full this story
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