06. Manufacturing Loneliness — Why and How Connection is Meant to Fail

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The Loneliness Industry

jordan reyne

15 episodes

1 week ago

Welcome to a podcast about loneliness. Loneliness is not a personal failing, despite what we’re told. It’s woven into the fabric of the world we live in, yet the very values that drive loneliness also tell us we are to blame. We’re here to unpack the real causes of isolation: late-stage capitalism, disconnection culture, performative relationships, and more. If you’ve ever felt alone in a hyperconnected world, you’re not alone — this podcast is for you. We’ll explore loneliness and social isolation through the lenses of philosophy, mental health, cultural critique, and the deep human need for

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06. Manufacturing Loneliness — Why and How Connection is Meant to Fail

The Loneliness Industry

1 hour 17 minutes 11 seconds

5 months ago

06. Manufacturing Loneliness — Why and How Connection is Meant to Fail

Why does loneliness persist, even after all the therapy, self-help, and "inner work"?This episode of The Loneliness Industry dives deep into the structural roots of loneliness—showing how Western capitalist values like independence, competition, control, and self-sufficiency actively undermine our ability to form meaningful connection.

This episode tells you what the self-help world won’t:Loneliness isn’t just emotional — it’s engineered.By capitalism.By culture.By the values we’re taught to worship: independence, control, self-sufficiency.We talk: • What intimacy really is (and why sex can be completely devoid of it) • Why therapy alone can’t fix disconnection • How capitalism manufactures loneliness — and then shames you for feeling it • What it means to be pathologized for having basic human needsGuest-starring philosophers from several countries:Michel Foucault (on power and the construction of pathology)bell hooks (on love, mutuality, and community)Hannah Arendt (on loneliness and totalitarianism)Lauren Berlant (on cruel optimism and affective structures)Gabor Maté (on connection and health)John Bowlby (on attachment and emotional development)Dan Siegel, Stephen Porges, Louis Cozolino (on relational neuroscience)If you’ve ever felt ashamed for needing others, or wondered why intimacy feels so hard in modern life—this episode is for you.

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