I think we need to be realistic... lonliness is an emerging problem around the world. In the UK they're worried about lonely pensioners, in Japan it's lonely young people, in the US it's just... lonely people. We're spending more time than ever talking at each other online, while isolating ourselves from the kind of real contact that would fulfill our more basic needs.
What does this have to do with the linked article? Is this in response to anything in particular you read that you want to refute through facts or history, or is this just you throwing out an irrelevant opinion? The author describes personal, detailed situations and statistics you haven't touched on at all.
While it's not all hogwash, as a gay man I don't really identify with this article at all. I don't have friends doing meth and going to sex parties as it would suggest is ubiquitous, nor do I know anyone who has commuted suicide, etc. There are pockets of people like this but it paints an unbalanced picture.
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