It's hard to accurately describe the loneliness crisis in the developed world without sounding hyperbolic.
So instead I want to advance the possibility that social media, in spite of their intuitive appeals, have had the main effect of supercharging every atomizing tendency in developed societies.
In a former age, high-agency socially effective individuals would try endeavors and would draw a small community with them on their coattails.
But in a socially atomized or complacent ages, the same individuals risk social suicide for breaking away from the norm. The only socialization on offer is low-trust, low-investment.
@cosmiccitizen I see the logic, but this isn't true in my experience; I regularly both see others organizing meatspace phenomena and also do so myself
@pee_zombie What I mean is that American civil society is dying and it's a pretty soundly substantiated claim.
