American lore is full of tales of a nation built on the foundations of individualism. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking upon the population of the United States. Yet many frontier myths skip over how important community has been in the settling and growth of the nation. In the suburbs, Betty Friedan's groundbreaking “ The Feminine Mystique " helped give voice to a generation of lonely women. “We all know someone who has, or have been that someone ourselves actually, that’s struggled, that’s felt isolated, that’s felt anxious, that has felt alone,” Sudeikis said.

Source: The Nation May 16, 2023 05:04 UTC