Lost connections johann hari review5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many, maybe most, of the best novels are set somewhere very particular, and perhaps that isn’t by chance. being nowhere.” That’s something artists know. He gives context to problems I’d not fully perceived: “If you can be everywhere-in vehicles, or online-you end up. It’s a fantastic book, but ignore the subtitle, which makes Lost Connections sound more like clickbait than it actually is I’d not properly considered loneliness until I read this book, though I thought I had. Lost Connections offers another, more systematic but complementary to Frankl. Man’s Search for Meaning addresses one set of possibilities for making meaning. Many people are suffering from crises of meaning. One could posit various reasons for François’s feelings, ranging from the literary to the psychological to the spiritual, but Hari offers another explanation, or set of explanations. And yet I knew I was close to suicide, not out of despair or even any special sadness, simply from the degradation of “the set of functions that resist death,” in Bichat’s famous formulation. Until I died I was guaranteed a generous income, twice the national average, without having to do any work. Financially, I had nothing to complain about. ![]() In a certain milieu-granted, a very small one-I was known and even respected. My life was marked by real intellectual achievements. Here is a typical narrator in a Michel Houellebecq novel-in this case, François from Submission, but most Houellebecq narrators express similar sentiments: ![]()
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