I don't see it as apathy. I suspect people are simply choosing to put their time into pursuits other than attending meetings with other people. In the past 20

I don't see it as apathy. I suspect people are simply choosing to put their time into pursuits other than attending meetings with other people. In the past 20 years, there's been a large rise in the time the average person spends on the social web. In the past 10 years, with the rise of mobile platforms, that time has gone up even more. In addition, streaming media has become very big, thereby consuming even more of our free time. That additional time spent online has to come from somewhere. As Sherry Turkle put it, we are increasingly choosing to be "Alone Together" probably at the cost of old school forms of togetherness like church and social clubs.