From the beginning of humanity until today, man lives with infinity of individual and collective problems.
In modern societies we are riding at the maddening pace of the cities, crossed by economic, cultural and emotional needs, pressured to achieve social success at any cost, and fed by journalistic and political agendas that crush us on what issues we should talk about. The result is the sublimation of our personal deficiencies, and we only face the social ones. In other words, if there is an economic and social crisis, we suffer economic problems as individuals; or if it is chaos to park the car in our neighborhood, we will have personal problems to find a place.
We live solving, or at least trying to find solutions to the daily problems that rain down on us from the outside, but at the same time dry up our interior. We leave aside what happens to us as people. We are sponges that absorb the outside and expel the inside.
In times where psychosocial conditions are classified as syndromes, this game of covering up the personal with the group could be called “SOS Syndrome”, the loneliness entrenched in the bones, the loneliness imposed, the unelected, the one that marginalizes and needs help of who provokes it.
Who lives in the middle of the field, does not suffer loneliness, he is simply a lonely being. But those who live in large cities can be invaded by loneliness without realizing it, as long as society is our dealer of tools to mask them in a thousand different ways.
Although societies and cities existed, exist and will always exist, it is enough to make a cut of time and space anywhere in the world to find the particularities of the SOS Syndrome:
People who, in the absence of a family affective environment, try to supply it with material goods.
People who move away from their own in search of a social promotion.
People without major conflicts, that society uses them by raising them to a pedestal, to lower them from a stone the next day.
Large cities invaded by gangs of street boys who commit crimes as an excuse, not only to subsist, but to supply their emotional deficiencies and create new groups of belonging to escape that life of imposed loneliness
In all cases, society is the generator of needs that we do not need, and that derive in loneliness due to frustration at not being able to satisfy them. Power is what needs the loneliness of people to perpetuate themselves while offering us cosmetic well-being.
The future of SOS Syndrome is predictable, and if it can be predicted, it can be prevented. It is only about connecting with our interior and its true needs, and from there building social bridges that communicate us in a genuine way, to banish the true current pandemic, loneliness.
Very well said, that in the field, you are not lonely, because, life, is around you, plants animals, whatever. In cities, there are just walls around you.