From 'Ritual Data' to 'Social Resilience': Decoding Taiwan's Survival Wisdom
A few days ago I stumbled onto something interesting. There’s this conversation happening online about how young people feel lonely these days. Everything is online, nothing offline. No real communities anymore. And it got me thinking in a different direction. Look, loneliness isn’t a new problem. Hundreds of years ago, people felt it too. They just called it something else. When you’re displaced, when you migrate to somewhere foreign with no relatives, no neighbors—that’s basically “social anxiety” by today’s standards. ...