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I see Gladwell's comments as being just the latest in a line of people proclaiming the death of the public sphere. Staring with Ray Oldenburg's Third Place http
by jccalhoun 4y ago
I see Gladwell's comments as being just the latest in a line of people proclaiming the death of the public sphere. Staring with Ray Oldenburg's Third Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place and more recently Putnam's Bowling Alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
While I do think there is something to be said for face to face interactions, valorizing work is just making work your life instead of the thing that makes life possible.
- coffeefirst 4y agoYes, if taking away the part of your day where you go and sit at a long desk table with headphones on in any way feels like "reducing your life," there's a bigger problem. We could definitely use a major civic revival and more backyard barbecues. We could do without sitting in conference rooms.