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> "if you're lonely, anxious, or depressed, it's because the world has become increasingly fragmented" - https://youtu.be/RXiLAn3vUKg?feature=shared

IMHO this video was hard to watch.

There is no "loneliness epidemic" [1] *, and blaming every listener's anxiety+depression on X (the oldest snake oil tactic), where X is YouTube's personalization algorithm, is cringeworthy. The rest of this video was full of loose correlations. It reminded me of watching the "pizza gate" conspiracy video.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/loneliness-epidemic

* Or rather, there was none before 2020. Obviously, in 2020+, the COVID quarantine was a massive drive of loneliness poll results, and we must assume that effect might still linger a few years later. The only way to rule this out is to look at pre-2020 polls.



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