Nexit: Making Friends

In Episode 40, we look at the art of making friends while cancelled. We live in a hyper-alienated time, when more people than ever before report having few or no close friends. On top of that, renewed puritanical impulses within the culture threaten to exile already-atomized people from what little community they have left. In such a context, how are we to create and nurture meaningful connections and break the isolation so poisonous to the human spirit?Part of the Nexit series.Show Notes30% of Millennials say they are often or always lonely. 20% report having no acquaintences at allHikikomori, the Japanese phenomenon of extreme social isolation is going globalFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe