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Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
- autotune 9y agoLooks like lack of alienation is killing nautil.us. Cached version (scroll down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kgVH5lqAiLkJ:nautil.us/blog/-alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kgVH5lq... also, this is why you need caching and high availability implemented on the back end... and after looking at their "about us" page staff, apparently a sysadmin.
- taurath 9y agoWhats especially interesting is that Japan is a culture of honor and conformity, and the US is a culture of generally individualism. Someone living out deep in the suburbs that doesn't have kids really doesn't have many options outside of work to meet people or make friends. The only community centers we have are Schools and Churches, but a huge segment of the population doesn't go to either - they stay at home and watch TV, or maybe go to a bar and don't speak to anyone. My parents both retired recently - they found after "work" there was really nothing to do, and 90% of their social lives went away after they left their job. I'm quite worried about the time they are spending at home - one can spend weekends landscaping the yard only so long. Maybe my trouble is I haven't had very good examples of good social lives, but it seems like its a problem overall in American society - once out of school or college there's no default place to go.
- danielvf 9y ago(If they are near any kind of city, there are zillions of clubs for every hobby you can imagine, plus many ways to volunteer. People tend to do a lot of socializing at both of these. These clubs are usually super accepting of new members. )