It shouldn't be religion. It also shouldn't be hanging out in a bar, or smoking, or some inane stadium event where people don't really mingle. There needs to

It shouldn't be religion. It also shouldn't be hanging out in a bar, or smoking, or some inane stadium event where people don't really mingle. There needs to be a third place# where it's expected to have polite conversation and interactions that can lead to "being social". In smaller communities maybe that's a town square or a park between things, but that just doesn't scale and can't cope with decentralization (which is one of the driving forces behind the tech revolution). I don't really have an answer, but I do know that actual civic planning a re-organizing society so that we actually move towards having more free time and less "work time" will be beneficial to this and many other problems. # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place