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GP is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour "Asocial" means being non-soc
by ysavir 2y ago
GP is referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour
"Asocial" means being non-social. "Anti-social" means being a problem to society. It's terrible terminology to be sure, but those are the current definitions, and it's surprising that no one in the chain of publication for this article flagged that.
- lantry 2y agoThe article does describe how these changes are hurting our society, e.g. increased opioid overdoses, increased political polarization; so it could be an intentional word choice to call it "anti-social".
- troad 2y ago> It's terrible terminology to be sure It's a fairly common pattern in English: e.g. "moral - amoral - immoral", or "political - apolitical - anti-political". > it's surprising that no one in the chain of publication for this article flagged that. I think the choice here is deliberate: the century stands accused of being hostile to social life, ergo it is anti-social, not asocial.