▲ 196 ▼ The Anti-Social Century | Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality (www.theatlantic.com) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/news@lemmy.world 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's sad but I've been seeing this happen starting 10-12 years ago. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago The writing's been on the wall for decades now. The internet accelerated things, but this really and truly started with the rise of the automobile and the white flight to the suburbs, and the commercialization of public life was the death by a thousand cuts that lead to this moment. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago The writing's been on the wall for decades now. The internet accelerated things, but this really and truly started with the rise of the automobile and the white flight to the suburbs, and the commercialization of public life was the death by a thousand cuts that lead to this moment. permalink fedilink source parent