The author of “Bowling Alone” warned us about social isolation and its effect on democracy a quarter century ago. Things have only gotten worse.
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@Tom-yg9ts28 күн бұрын
Why is young white men being on their own side a "problem"? You'd never hear him say that about Asians or blacks or Latinos.
@ropeburnsrussellАй бұрын
What a smart man, it's tragic that he has no great plan to move us forward. Maybe the plan is millions of tiny actions taken by all of us. Ill see if i can think of any, good luck to us all.
@gabrielreyes8697Ай бұрын
There are big elephants in the room being ignored in this conversation.
@phillyburbs2002Ай бұрын
My dog is my constant companion. I'm 67. I never feel lonely. One morning I woke my back was out & I had no one to call to help me. Have I done anything to change my circumstances since? No. Why Not? Past Rejections has left a lasting negative impact on me.
@wordswords2094Ай бұрын
Animals are the best. I hope you best friend lives a long time. It hurts so much when they pass on. Have a lovely day with your companion!
@andrewmcmanus9023Ай бұрын
Maybe the issue is - surprise - really not a lack of community, but of that genuine, immutable and pathologically American self-interest. Refuse to listen to others, adapt, or step outside yourself and you’ll be a real American, and you’ll find politicians and media who flatter the impulses you already have.
@thedahkterizzin8831Ай бұрын
Love this convo❤
@DSTH323Ай бұрын
What a wise man! Excellent show.
@85445qwertyАй бұрын
Remarkable interview.
@jackiepie7423Ай бұрын
i am surprised he did not call his book driving alone. the loneliness epidemic he refers to co-incides with the rise of two car families.
@ecognitio9605Ай бұрын
No mention of the inherent individualism fetish in America?
@chrislin2774Ай бұрын
Really? I don't think so. If anything it's the opposite. Not when most Americans are stuck in cultural tribal warfare and making outrage a valuable currency.
@DDCrpАй бұрын
It's a troll bot
@ecognitio9605Ай бұрын
@@DDCrp Not a bot 000CP
@antarjones7888Ай бұрын
Question for the professor: how do you build an organization like the Boyscouts when that and similar organizations have had so many problems with abuses and social exclusion and/ or exclusivity?
@jeffmrnАй бұрын
What can replace the Boy Scouts?
@katherinealba6768Ай бұрын
Answer; use stringent checks, training and supervision of the adults involving themselves with full Organisation accountability and transparency and outside independent oversight plus with reporting procedures where the complainants are taken seriously. That's how.
@Sokrabiades24 күн бұрын
@@katherinealba6768absurd. that's not how you build local, organic community structures. That's how you build bureaucracy and political commisars.
@killjoyredux8361Ай бұрын
Diversity hasn't helped
@twyckoff87Ай бұрын
Strikingly not mentioned once. When he said our isolation started in 1965 (When the mass immigration started), I thought for sure he'd mention it. Grateful for Putnam for his work, but he has a clear ideological blind spot when offering solutions.
@katherinealba6768Ай бұрын
The reason a couple avoids each other in the home and texts each other instead of face to face talking within the home is not that they don't want connection. It is instead because one or both of them wants different connection, likely with someone else.
@LiamRappaportАй бұрын
I haven’t heard the name Putnam so many times since middle school.
@Sokrabiades24 күн бұрын
He's lost the plot. If social capital is in secular decline, as he says, yet it is a force of nature that cannot be eliminated without eliminating humanity itself, and he has no idea of how to build it, except to say 'join the local dart club, then this pressure can only be released through the emergence of extreme ideological movements, left and right. His focus on Trump and Trumpism is misplaced. The comparison to Weimar is fitting but naïve. We only remember the right-wing violence because of the Nazi victory, but there was a much larger social disintegration across Europe that was playing out on the left and right. Like Macron today, they had little hope but to try to play the two off one another or go into exile. Imagine Putnam's solution in 1929: "be trustworthy and go to the lederhosen league."
@jonhowell5014Ай бұрын
NYT: Thank you for this, and for the rest of the videos you publish. Ayn Rand said many decades ago that we are living in an age of "social metaphysics", where our fundamental apprehension of reality is based on other people's opinions. Say what you will about Ayn Rand. She and her philosophy had quite a few flaws and shortcomings, but in this case, she was right. As of today this channel has 71 thousand subscribers. MrBeast's channel has 302 million. I stopped there but there are countless other examples. That says it all.
@growitheflowАй бұрын
Answer: Capitalism
@wordswords2094Ай бұрын
A commentator on Plato said when a country lays downs Plato, that's when trouble starts. We had a Canon we followed and like it or not, it was the underpinning of much of our ideologies. Bring back the Classical Canon.
@nick1801Ай бұрын
Plato’s corpus was literally lost to the West for a thousand years, only to be revived by the likes of Marsilio Ficino, who himself was quickly dispensed with the rise of Enlightenment rationalism and Victorian Prudishness (due to offense to then-contemporary sexual mores, accurate translations of the Symposium weren’t available in English until the 20th century).
@twyckoff87Ай бұрын
what does "lay down into Plato" mean?
@wordswords209411 күн бұрын
@@twyckoff87 Doh. I meant when it discards Plato (et al.)
@katherinealba6768Ай бұрын
Mr Putman, where is the input specific to females and to the desire of females to connect socially with others in a platonic way? Child care and elder care issues keep the mother at home, isolated. Angry, controlling husbands keep some wives at home. Female gender specific violence and sexual harassment keep the single woman at home instead of outdoors or at clubs and events. Plus, clubs, events and activities nearly all cost money to participate in and plenty women do not have access to that entertainment money. You are omitting the female experience.
@plutoloco2378Ай бұрын
This guy needs to lower the pitch of his voice. It’s annoying.