"LONELY SOCIETY?" I THINK SO.

To think that if even 500 people made such a call to a stranger, but 5000?

Some great insights in - Josie Morris' post "Lonely Society?" over at "new persuasion: Under Currents." (click on read text to go there)

"Even though Americans seem more connected than every before with email , myspace, text messaging, and online chat rooms, in reality we are more disconnected than ever before. We lack the basic need of people we can count on when we need them the most. We talk to people halfway around the world yet don't know who our neighbors are."

Josie Morris mentions and links about a study published in American Sociological Review about the trend today towarad "social isolation." Here is a link to one of the study's co-authors Lynn Smith-Lovin on NPR:

I wonder how many of us called Ryan, because "we" needed human connection for ourselves or because sensing Ryan's loneliness we did it to help him? Or, was it perhaps a spontaneous cultural "mutual understanding" that we are all so lonely - Ryan needs a call, I need to talk, we all need a hug?

Or, might we be in the midst of an emerging cultural myth?

Might YouTube be what his mirror was to Narcissus? So interesting how young Ryan Fitzgerald (RyanTwin20), like Narcissus, is a twin.

Following the thread . . .

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"The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another." -- Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut