Are you sick of online dating? Or just sick of shallow conversations on social media? You aren’t alone.
Immersed in our virtual worlds, we’re connected but can’t connect. The internet is a carnival hustler, a gleam in its eye as it lures you into bright lights and endless diversion. It picks your pockets of your deepest values and sells them back to you. You stumble out fleeced and wanting more.
This new essay by Alexander Beiner features a conversation with Katherine Dee, who writes the ‘Default Friend’ Substack. They discuss the concept of Sex Negativity, the phenomenon of people pushing back against the atomised, disconnected relationships of the Tinder Age and instead choosing more traditional lifestyles.
The piece goes on to explore the crisis of intimacy being birthed by social media, the gamification of discourse, fascinating research into online empathy, the unspeakable evil of Furbies and an archaic secret to a lasting marriage.
https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/the-intimacy-crisis-sex-and-social?s=w
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