The loneliness epidemic and our societal slide into godless totalitarianism are deeply, inseparably and spiritually linked. The numbers tell the story. Marriage rates have collapsed 65% since 1970 after the immorality of the sexual revolution. Every Western nation is below replacement birth rates and some are approaching demographic extinction. Meanwhile Muslim birthrates are on the rise along with the propogation of their murderous religion.
Men's close friendships have declined by half since 1990. I can attest to this myself. I have only two or three close friends. The rest are merely passing acquaintances. Global social isolation jumped 13.4% from 2009 to 2024. Much of it occuring during 2020 and after. About 58% of Americans feel no one truly knows them. Every structural trend of modern life is breaking us apart and leaving us alone. The primary culprits being the smartphone and one's political ideology. This has become especially true for white males who, by-and-large have been excluded from many things socially via the Progressive Left's push for inclusion, tolerance and diversity. If the Progressives and Marxist media push for inclusion, tolerance and diversity you can be assured they do not mean white males. They are to be excluded. Alienation and ostracizing of the largest contingent of the labor force is now effectivly socially cut off from most other social groups. Sometimes even in Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. Christian brotherhood be damned.
Social philosopher Hannah Arendt spent her life studying how totalitarian
movements rise to power. She discovered that the mass man isn't defined by
brutality and testosterone, but by isolation and lack of normal social relationships...specially loneliness. Totalitarian states don't just create lonely people, they harvest them. The
masses who join these movements grew out of societies where people had already
lost their connections to family, community, and class. Once those bonds
dissolve, the isolated individual becomes raw material for a cold inhuman movement to
shape. This is also why it is critical for the Marxist philosophy to eliminate
God and even the idea of God. If God truly exists, then man is never truly
alone. Destroy belief, destroy communal interaction. First with other men, then
with a man’s God.
This is why religion and religious belief has to be mocked
and erased by a Marxist regimes as is being done in America today. There is no other valid
explanation for what is happening in America and the Western world at-large right now.
Philosophy makes a crucial distinction between isolation
and loneliness. Isolation means losing your ability to act or interact politically or as a
group. It is the amputation of the ability to have influence in the world around you. But loneliness goes deeper.
It means losing trust in yourself, losing confidence in your own thoughts and
judgment. You are literally amputated from portions of yourself through doubt and
fear. Personal emotional dislocation. Isolation is about what you can do in the world,
while loneliness is about who you are in the world. The Bible is clear, we are
communal people and if our choice of communality is removed another form of it will be
forced on us in the form of an overbearing draconian government. That is because communal behavior is, at its root, a spiritual action.
It is also why the atheistic believer strives so hard to
make man believe that humans are alone in the universe and there is no God. It
creates a sense of helplessness that a lonely person is trapped in a vast
meaningless whirling void of pointlessness. This inevitably leads many lonely or lost people to embrace nihilism and accept that there is no point or meaning to existence. A person that embraces this mindset realizes that
if all is pointless then what is the point of existing at all. Many nihilistic and godless belief systems usually end in suicides.
While many factors may contribute to suicide, more than a century of research has demonstrated significant links between a lack of social connection and death by suicide. This research suggests that social connection may protect against suicide as a cause of death, especially for men. One study found that among men, deaths due to suicide are associated with loneliness and more strongly with indicators of objective isolation such as living alone. In this study of over 500,000 middle-aged adults, the probability of dying by suicide more than doubled among men who lived alone.
Conversely, isolation is helpful for some. I tend to isolate frequently. It strengthens me because I re-establish my connection with God. The truth is simple though; I am never alone. My isolation is usually purposeful so that I have the silence and the presence of mind to engage my God as the 'still small' and fleeting voice on the wind. It is the scenario in the Old Testament from 1 Kings 19:11-12, where the prophet Elijah seeks God in a cave on Mount Horeb.
The Lord said, “Go out and stand
on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks
before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an
earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a
fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle
whisper.
God reveals Himself not in the accompanying roaring wind, shattering earthquake, or consuming fire, but in the ensuing silence. If we look at Elijah himself, he too was isolated often but he was also God's greatest Old Testament prophet. He is the benchmark for all other prophets including John the Baptist. Who, above all is the one (βοῶντος/bonntos or one crying, which is a masculine singular verb) or lone voice crying out in the wilderness heralding Jesus' arrival.
The men of God often isolate but they are never lonely. For Christ, “the wilderness” or “desolate place” often became his momentarily sacred space. He regularly escaped the noise and frenzy of society to be alone with his Father, where he could give him his full attention. We see many Bible passages telling us the Jesus often isolated to be with the father not to be lonely. Matthew 14:13, 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 4:42, 5:16 are just a few. Jesus modeled a healthy example of isolation with God, not lonliness. Note the difference. Even in the Godhead there are three or a Trinity. Even God is not alone.
An isolated person can still think clearly, make decisions,
and judge right from wrong as Jesus did. But a lonely person loses that. They become completely
disconnected. They lose context and disassociate. In losing context they begin to feel they lose
importance in the world. They no longer know their place
in society or in the world. They feel they become worthless not only to others
but also to themselves. In a way they kind of do lose the importance they were created for if they are separated from the God. A God that wishes to have a relationship with them. It is God that gives us our value. Remove God and only
men are left to impress. Lonely people become victims to the next
great idea or system that they believe will give them value. Those people or
systems usually end up being corrupt and evil. God made us communal. We will
automatically seek that out or go crazy trying.
Unfortunately, loneliness has become the everyday experience
of modern masses. Into that emptiness steps totalitarian Marxist thinking,
offering simple, rigid logic as a replacement for actual human connection. The
ideology promises certainty when nothing else feels certain. It gives the purposeless man a purpose. Even if that purpose is lawless, murderous or violent.
It is similar to the plight of the inner-city youth begin recruited into criminal
drug trafficking of urban areas. Carl Jung warned that when
individuals feel insignificant and invisible, they become desperate to merge
into something larger than themselves.
This psychological erosion, the sense that you're nobody
special, just another face in the crowd living at some address like millions of
other people, creates the perfect conditions for mass movements to take hold.
Mass brainwashing. A million isolated individuals don't add up to strength.
They become weakness at scale. A financial and emotional liability. The dictator's advantage over free society isn't
better organization. It's that he absorbs the individual completely, taking not
just their vote, but their moral compass, their capacity for independent
thought, and their ability to trust their own judgment. Effectively stealing their identity completely. The more disconnected
individuals become from each other, the more powerful the state grows to fill
that void.
Look around you. This philosophy is being enacted at an industrial
scale with no signs of slowing. Belief in God prevents this morose faceless inhumanity. In the absence of God, we
lose our own identities. Within him whom we were created in the image of, we find not only relationship but also our meaning for existence. This will never be found in a human government or leader.
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