We are all perhaps far lonelier than we imagine - largely because we can’t find a safe way to admit to what we are ashamed of in ourselves.
In this episode, John and Alain talk with touching candour of their personal experience of loneliness - and sketch out what would be needed in order to create a less lonely world.
The secret seems to be to make a leap of faith that what is in ourselves is most likely to have some kind of analogy with what is going in another. Loneliness is, in this sense, about a misplaced emphasis on singularity.