You're more likely to have heart disease, dementia if you're spending more time alone. But it has practical considerations for our politics. I mean, I bet you a lot of those people who were rioting at the Capitol on January 6th were pretty lonely people that came to believe these conspiracy theories about Democrats because they were first sad about their loneliness and they were angry about it and they wanted to take it out on somebody. So I just think that in that founding document, it says that government is supposed to guarantee the right to pursue happiness. (33:14–33:29)
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Suggests that loneliness contributed to the motivations of some individuals involved in the January 6th Capitol riot.
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