Grief on this scale can kill the lone mourner—if not physically, then in other ways. It’s just another curse of an isolated Homo economicus: What consumers do is buy green, not hold each other and cry. If we’ve been robbed of “all memory of a past when humans managed to organize themselves in other ways,” that must extend to our emotional lives as well: Your problems are personal and pathological, their solutions circumscribed to your own life choices and a couple of self-help titles.
