Gordon Flett
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1,089 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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And let's just take loneliness for an example.
Loneliness and this concept of anti-mattering are associated so robustly that we started to talk about
the double jeopardy of feeling alone and feeling insignificant.
It even hit me in terms of famous songs, the Beatles song, Eleanor Rigby.
You know, Father McKenzie giving a sermon where nobody will hear it.
Eleanor Rigby picking up the rice in a church buried along with her name, Nobody Came.
And it hit me that back in the 60s, the Beatles figured it out that it wasn't just the loneliness of, oh, look at all the lonely people.
It was all the lonely people who actually felt insignificant.
and unimportant, unnoticed, invisible.
So it's been around as a concept and the Beatles were always way ahead of everybody else.
But when I look at the numbers and the increasing numbers, I see that it's definitely an issue of not mattering, which I think can also be through comparisons through social media and the like.
One study I'd cite here that I did with a French colleague who contacted me
was focused on not mattering in society.
And he was showing me that the link between not mattering in society was linked with criminal sentiments and violence, not believing in the justice system.
And then I said to him, but can you just tell me how many young people in your sample of around 400 French adolescents felt like they don't matter in society?
He got back to me.
He said, I can't believe it.
It's like two thirds, two out of three say I don't matter in society.
So once you have that sense of disconnect from society where you're feeling alienated, it's all the more important to get the sense of mattering through your family, through your community, through school and whatever.
And it's another form of double or triple jeopardy.
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