Social Disconnection

Beyond loneliness, we're losing the skills, spaces, and structures that enable genuine human connection across difference.

Connection is what makes us human. Without it, we lose empathy, solidarity, and the capacity to solve problems together.

Like everyone is speaking a different language. Like bridges you don't know how to build. Like reaching out and touching nothing.

Stories from people who've forgotten how to talk to strangers, from communities divided by algorithms, from bridges that need building.