Paul McCartney of Beatles in “Eleanor Rigby”
We live in a predominantly lonely world and as observed by Bartleby in
The Economist, the lockdown due to the COVID-19 has exacerbated this problem that has been spreading for decades in developed nations. As a developing country, the Philippines may not have reached that alarming level but if we don’t watch out, we may succumb to the same malaise.
In an important new book,
The Lonely Century, economist Noreena Hertz notes how loneliness is the defining condition of our time, worsened by ever increasing social and economic inequality. If that last part of the statement rings familiar, we ought to be unduly concerned as a country.
John Maytham s Book Reviews: 19 February 2021
19 February 2021 5:02 PM books
John s 3 book picks this week.
1. Thriller: Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, is the latest Alex Delaware thriller, he helps his friend Detective Milo Sturgis solve a cold case.
2. Novel: Outlawed by Anna North, fits within a genre termed the feminist western, is an alternative history of a town where fertility is an issue, and where a western outlaw gang is reimagined with barren women or non-binary people.
3. Non-Fiction: The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That s Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz, described as the economist s answer to Nigella Lawson, jokes John. She makes understanding the economy easy and accessible.
Angst spreads in âThe Lonely Centuryâ
Even before the pandemic, many of us were suffering
By Julia M. Klein Globe Correspondent,Updated February 11, 2021, 6:23 p.m.
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Last March, Noreena Hertz, a London-based broadcaster and academic, was just finishing her book on what she already considered âthe lonely century.â You could say that she didnât know the half of it â or that she underestimated just how prescient her ideas would prove.
When the pandemic hit, the attendant lockdowns and quarantines only magnified the problem of social isolation. Hertz quickly rewrote. References to our
Lots of people are lonely these days. Months of stay-at-home orders and other limits on face-to-face contact are taking their toll.But even before the pandemic introduced us to terms like “social distancing,” loneliness was a defining condition of the.