Attempts to reach sustaining people heighten felt isolation

Evidence

We, too, are lonely, plagued by anomie, troubled by the sense of a fundamental disconnection between ourselves and what’s real. The world seems to have slanted sideways. The more we try to be in contact with the people and things that promise to sustain us, the more isolated we become. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 42

Categorization

• XREF: Contradiction-tension with the user’s own premise in One Square Inch / soundscape work that some media can reconnect — worth mapping. — connects to: Isolation makes mail delivery a communal obsession in mountain settlements. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 138; Residents of remote base areas feel invisible relative to mainland Americans — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 430; The dramatic form’s breakdown was driven by growing individual isolation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2237 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Isolation makes mail delivery a communal obsession in mountain settlements. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 138; Residents of remote base areas feel invisible relative to mainland Americans — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 430; The dramatic form’s breakdown was driven by growing individual isolation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2237 (+1 more)