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Podcast: The Bill Walton Show
Episode: “The Surgeon General Now Wants To Cure Your Loneliness: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” with Stella Morabito and Mark Tapscott
Description: In one of our most talked about episodes, Stella Morabito came on the show in May to talk about her book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. We talked about a new kind tyranny creeping into American lives. Government, social media and a new kind of “ruling class” are increasingly working to control speech and behavior and isolating us from one another. This effort is intensifying and spreading throughout society’s institutions. “Isolation, and how rulers use it to control people, is really the greatest threat to...