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Apparently, it\u2019s \u201cLoneliness Awareness Week,\u201d thanks to a global campaign emanating from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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On the surface, the idea of a \u201cLoneliness Awareness Week\u201d sounds as cozy as the founding organization\u2019s name, Marmalade Trust. That group self-identifies as a \u201ccharity,\u201d but it acts more like a nongovernmental organization (NGO) devoted to government and globalist involvement in shaping our social connections. <\/p>\n

Marmalade Trust\u2019s home page proudly announces that its mission to fight loneliness is \u201cjoined by organisations globally,\u201d including 10 Downing Street, the U.K.\u2019s National Health Service, the BBC, The Guardian, Public Health England, and various other globalist and media outlets. On another page, it boasts that Loneliness Awareness Week has had the involvement of \u201cthe Royal Family, the Prime Minister, the Mayor of London, NHS trusts, and all government departments.\u00a0 We have even had a special Royal Mail postage stamp!\u201d The London transit authority is also partnering with the campaign by encouraging people to chat with strangers on public transit, seemingly to help overcome the loneliness epidemic.<\/p>\n

Other such organizations go by names like Camerados and Strangers in the City. The lure of these groups is completely understandable given the brokenness and despair all around us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But when the government gets into the act of \u201chelping\u201d us in our quest for a social life, there\u2019s much room for skepticism. Government policies have long played a huge role in\u00a0causing<\/em>\u00a0social isolation. Consider how policies that promote family breakdown, welfare dependency, urban blight, homelessness, deaths of despair, violent street crime, abortion, and the noxious effects of social media weaken human bonds.<\/p>\n

Marmalade Trust says its global campaign is all about reaching out, having conversations, and building more social connections. That\u2019s all very nice when people do it organically. But in a somewhat buried document that potential partners are invited to access via a post on X, the organization admits to being inherently political<\/em>.\u00a0For example, it explains on page four of that partnership guide that it hopes to bring \u201cpeople together from businesses, community groups, and the government to take action,\u201d and to shape the public understanding of loneliness by \u201cshifting it from a personal problem to a political priority.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

On page six of that same \u201cpartnership pack,\u201d you can read how working with Marmalade Trust in its loneliness awareness campaign helps support corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, as well as \u201csocial value and inclusion\u201d goals (i.e., diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI). It adds up to another woke attempt to control others\u2019 lives in the name of helping them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other organizations around the world have glommed onto the campaign, claiming to fight loneliness. In Washington, D.C., for example, there is the group Foundation for Social Connection Action Network. Then there\u2019s the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection (GILC). And, of course, the World Health Organization, which launched a Commission on Social Connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Exploitation for Political Agendas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So why would I give any publicity to a questionable campaign with not much of a social media following? Because any attempt to get the government involved in personal relationships is a dicey proposition. It\u2019s too easy for governments to manipulate vulnerable people to push for collectivism, not true social connection. Even if local volunteers are sincere, they are easily hijacked by political actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, government and media agencies signing on to \u201cLoneliness Awareness Week\u201d have already done enormous damage to personal relationships, especially during the Covid era. They bullied and mandated people into injections, face masks, lockdowns, and the shunning of and snitching on anyone who didn\u2019t comply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also laughable that the U.K. has a Ministry of Loneliness, given the country\u2019s proclivity to jail people for expressing wrongthink, arrest them for silently praying, or handcuff a dying stabbing victim if the perpetrator falsely accuses him of racism. All of this suggests loneliness is actually enforced<\/em> by the U.K. government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same goes for several other Western nations, including Canada, which has its own batch of organizations to \u201cfight loneliness.\u201d Canada doesn\u2019t yet have a Ministry of Loneliness, but perhaps killing its lonely people under its \u201cmedical assistance in dying\u201d (MAiD) assisted suicide law is a perversely effective way of reducing Canadian loneliness.<\/p>\n

These NGOs smell a bit like damage-control propaganda.<\/p>\n

Weaponizing Loneliness\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I started mulling over the loneliness issue a long time ago, well before I wrote my book The Weaponization of Loneliness<\/em>. But what really caught my attention recently was how speciously political actors were using the loneliness epidemic to promote a collectivist agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A case in point was the \u201c\u201d that former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released during the Biden administration in 2023. The advisory is jam-packed with \u201csolutions\u201d that meddle in private life and thereby promote<\/em> human atomization rather than ease it. For example, it calls for both the technology and health care sectors to track our social connections. It also advocates for systemic DEI and calls for building a federalized \u201csocial infrastructure\u201d in the places people gather. On the heels of that advisory in 2023, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., sponsored a bill to create a \u201cSocial Connection Act\u201d to do the same stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of this makes totalitarian sense. The whole point of the Covid-era crusade against so-called \u201cdisinformation\u201d was to keep us from talking openly to one another. Censorship, surveillance, and tracking have always been the essence of social control. In none of these organizations will you find any admission of the government\u2019s key role in promoting anti-family, anti-faith, and anti-speech policies that drive people into social isolation. But this shouldn\u2019t surprise us. A recurring pattern of ruling elites is first to create the malady, then to offer a \u201ccure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Astroturfed vs. Organic Solutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Eminent sociologist\u00a0Robert Nisbet wrote\u00a0about the deep-seated tendency of governments to hijack the functions of the mediating institutions of family, faith, and community. When the government takes over those functions, we become powerless in the resulting isolation. Nisbet posed this rhetorical question: \u201cWhat remains then, but to rescue the masses from their loneliness, their hopelessness, and despair, by leading them into the promised land of the absolute, redemptive State?\u201d This should serve as a warning to us all.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the solution? Clearly, we need to try to rebuild a sense of community face-to-face. But it cannot be a government-approved astroturfed community. Of course, tech gurus think we just need more technology, such as screen time and robot companions, to ward off loneliness. Rather, we must build an organic sense of belonging in which people learn to care for their fellow man and mind their own business at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Building community must be done in the private sphere of life because that\u2019s the only place where true social connections are built. That\u2019s where intact families raise their children with a sense of virtue, institutions of faith give people a sense of order and purpose, and friends can confide in one another without meddlers eavesdropping. This private sphere cannot thrive when the government, in cahoots with supposed charities that claim to relieve loneliness, tracks our relationships.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re much better off building trusting relationships on our own in private life. Individuals who really care should focus locally and take initiative to offer companionship to isolated individuals without the heavy hand of Big Brother and his assistants. We should make a point of meeting our neighbors with goodwill and rejecting the pseudo-intimacy that our governments seem intent on foisting upon us.<\/p>\n

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