The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health crisis — associated with depression, cardiovascular disease, even increased mortality risk — and the advice rolled out like clockwork: join a gym, download a friend app, try harder. As though the problem is you. As though fifty years of dismantled civic…
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Safety, Solitude, and the Strange Popularity of “Are You Dead?”
This week, an app with a name most of us wouldn’t put on a greeting card topped the paid iPhone charts in China — Are You Dead? — and it’s worth stopping to watch what that says about this moment we’re in. You scroll through the story, and it’s almost…