Friendship is overrated

Or as Marcel Proust put it: "Friendship is a lie which seeks to make us believe we are not irremediably alone"

This week's discourse seems to be about Jonathan Haidt, and his recent book about how modern technology is making kids uniquely anxious, depressed, etc. I've seen a lot of talk going back and forth about these ideas. General consensus seems to be that the book overstates the data in favor of its hypothesis, but that the hypothesis nonetheless seems plau…