How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal

Ted Anthony

NATION

Surgeon general declares loneliness an ‘epidemic’ that can be as deadly as smoking.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — At the end of “The Searchers,” one of John Wayne’s most renowned Westerns, a kidnapped girl has been rescued and a family reunited. As the closing music swells, Wayne’s character looks around at his kin — people who have other people to lean on — and then walks off toward the dusty West Texas horizon, lonesome and alone.

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