Let's Discuss... Urban isolation

You can be surrounded by eight million people and still feel like no one knows your name. You pass the same faces on the same street every morning. You hear your neighbours through the walls, their arguments, their music, their laughter. But you've never spoken. The city promised connection. It delivered proximity.

Is proximity without intimacy crueller than actual solitude?

If everyone is lonely, who's keeping us apart?

Who is responsible for the stranger next door?

Here is a documentary about Joyce Vincent that is related to this topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819513/

Please do your own research and share resources related to this topic in the comments below.
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About the session
The Examined Life "Let's Discuss…" session is an open, welcoming discussion, no prior reading or expertise required.
Format:

• 13:15 Free-flowing group discussion on the topic
• 14:00 (ish) We split into smaller groups for deeper conversation on what interests you most
• 16:00 Official end of the meetup. Most attendees stay on and keep chatting until around 18:00

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Artwork: A Frozen River by a Town at Evening 1665 by Aert van der Neer