We should party more
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Why are we feeling lonely and isolated, and how can a simple party help?
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I ha I love to party. Uh I have for a long time, although I've toned that down quite a bit. I don't mean to brag but my wife and I throw the greatest parties. It's so hard to get people out of their houses these days. So another rule I have is I just invite like literally everyone.
You have been invited to a fabulous secret party.
You arrived at the apartment. I buzz you up. A friend of mine that you don't know greets you at the door. And then they immediately put a blindfold on you. They take you by your hands and then they walk you through the apartment and they sit you down. They take your hand and they put it on someone's knee and they say Hi JQ. This is Brandon. Brandon, this is JQ. I'll leave you at it. If you need anything, just raise your hand. We're happy to bring you a drink. And then you start talking to a stranger. You have to be very thoughtful in the curation of the twenty-five people that I was doing this. You can't be people who know each other. And people start talking to each other. When you take a sense away like this, it markedly changes the way you engage with someone.
You really kind of skip the basic questions and you kind of start going into your feelings. We do about uh 10-minute cycles and then a little bell rings. And then my friend who's helping me will help me rotate the pairs. So you're meeting a different person and we go through this cycle maybe three times. And then finally you can take your blindfold off. And you obviously can see the person that you've most recently had a conversation with. And then a lot of the evening you kind of spend it trying to figure out who the first two people you were speaking with, you know, during the beginning of the party.
This is Victor Jeffries. He's based in New York and as you can probably tell, he's very serious about creating an experience that is both magical and
memorable. I love pushing up to the line to make people feel uncomfortable in the safest of ways. Um just to kind of switch it up a little bit.
Many of us haven't switched it up in a while. We're in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. More than half of Americans say they feel isolated, and there are lots of reasons why. One is that the art of the social gathering is in serious decline. In 2023, only about 4% of adults said they went to a party on a weekend or holiday. It's like we forgot how to host a dinner party. Or a blindfolded meet a stranger soiree. I'm John Glenn Hill, this is Explain It to Me from Vox, and this week we're gonna teach you how to throw the perfect party. Humans have been turning up for thousands of years. Imogene Willich traces the evolution of the party in her book Up All Night, a History of Going Out. And she says there was a time where the rowdiest parties were religious.
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For most of human history, the experiences that we associate with nightlife, so drinking, dancing, music, you know, hedonism, for most of human history, those experiences were simply part of religion because religion was so all-encompassing, you know, it contained people's hedonistic instinct.
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