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Strangers All Around — Martin Rothery

The Strangers Trilogy — Book Three

Strangers All Around

Why we became strangers to each other and what it is doing to us

Do you know your neighbour? Not their name. Actually know them. When did we stop knowing the people around us, and what did it cost us when we did? This book maps the collapse of community, the loneliness epidemic, the rise of cruelty online, and what genuine connection actually requires.

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Strangers All Around by Martin Rothery

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“We became strangers to each other long before COVID made it official. This book is about how, why, and what we do now.”

— Martin Rothery, Strangers All Around

What this book is

This book IS

  • The psychology behind the collapse of community and belonging
  • The loneliness epidemic decoded — causes, consequences, and truth
  • Online cruelty, polarisation, and tribalism as psychological phenomena
  • What genuine connection actually requires in the modern world
  • The final book in the Strangers trilogy

This book is NOT

  • A nostalgic fantasy about returning to the past
  • A political manifesto of any persuasion
  • Dismissive of the real pain of disconnection
  • Easy answers to genuinely difficult social problems
  • Disconnected from personal psychology

Inside the book

What you will find
inside these pages.

01Preface — Do You Know Your Neighbour?
02What Community Actually Was
03The Loneliness Epidemic That Arrived Before COVID
04The Third Places and What Replaced Them
05Class Geography and Who Got Left Behind
06COVID — The Experiment Nobody Designed
07The Community Spirit That Did Not Come Back
08The Algorithmic Replacement for Belonging
09The Death of Shared Reality
10Polarisation as Psychology
11Belief Opinion and the Confusion Between Them
12The Perception Gap
13What We Have Done to Disagreement
14The Hater — What Hatred of Strangers Is Actually About
15The Troll — Cruelty as Entertainment
16The Antagonist — The Person Who Needs to Win
17Online Cruelty as Mass Psychology
18What People Are Actually Saying When They Are Being Cruel
19The Dopamine Economy and the Social Contract
20Politics as Tribalism
21The Conspiracy and the Need It Meets
22The Performative Outrage Economy
23Selfishness as Survival Strategy
24Nationalism as Belonging
25Nostalgia as Politics
26Radicalisation — When the Stranger Becomes the Enemy
27Depression and Anxiety as Social Symptoms
28Kindness as Radical Act
29What Genuine Connection Actually Requires

Who this is for

This book is for you
if any of this is true.

  • You feel the disconnection but have not had a framework for it
  • You are concerned about what social media and polarisation are doing to society
  • You work with people whose struggles are rooted in isolation or community breakdown
  • You read Strangers Inside and want the third part of the picture
  • You are curious about the psychology behind cruelty, tribalism and hatred
  • You want to understand the social forces shaping the people around you

About the Author

Martin Rothery

Martin Rothery has spent 38 years in the deepest rooms of human psychology. He is the creator of Sanomentology, the Nine Realms, and a body of work that maps human consciousness, change, and transformation more completely than anything that existed before. He writes because he no longer has anything to be careful about.

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The Strangers Trilogy

Three books.
One complete picture.

Strangers in Charge looks outward at the people in power. Strangers Inside looks inward at the stranger who replaced you. Strangers All Around looks at what happened between all of us.

Strangers in Charge

BOOK ONE

Strangers in Charge

The psychology of the people running your world and what it is costing the rest of us.

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Strangers Inside

BOOK TWO

Strangers Inside

Why the person running your life has never really been you.

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Strangers All Around

BOOK THREE

Strangers All Around

Why we became strangers to each other and what it is doing to us.

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