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Lost Connections is a fantastic book on this. While it's definitely worth a read, the author's core argument is eroding community structures have led to an exp
by offtop5 6y ago
Lost Connections is a fantastic book on this.
While it's definitely worth a read, the author's core argument is eroding community structures have led to an explosion in mental illness.
He has a very interesting tale of a man in a small village who is essentially supported by everyone else there and with that is helped
Compared to the typical Western solution assuming your poor or homeless neighbor is the responsibility of some outside entity.
Online interactions also have a tendency to be very impersonal , and very mean. I don't really use any social media aside from this ( although that will change when I start promoting my side project game, I'll never speak outside of just promoting the game or asking for community feedback).
I'm very much looking forward to a post-corona world, my hope would be that more people embrace this beautiful world of ours instead of arguing about which movie casted who on Reddit all day.
- rabuse 6y agoThis is why I genuinely enjoy going to this bar near me regularly. It's a very high-end place, but everyone that goes there knows one another, and we're like a giant extended family. People within the group have newborns, and they bring them all the time, and pass them around for all of us to enjoy .