It's the contrast between increasing standards of living and increased social anxiety and unhappiness.
The youngest Americans, the ones using social media the most, are socializing the least "Irl."
When I talk to people, I refer to these trends as the depletion and disappearance of a social treasury.
It's easy to see how the depletion of the social treasure informs the politics of the Right's populists.
They may have the wherewithal, the talents, and the preexisting social capital to successfully navigate a world in which their communal life has been almost entirely displaced by a networking life.
They throw themselves more fully into careers and social milieux that run on a more disguised form of conditional favor-trading, rather than reciprocal duties.
Because politics has become one of the only arenas in which Americans can collectively discuss the quality of their social relations and their sense of morality, politicians will at least have to learn to address an America that is both wealthier and lonelier.
The decline of the social treasury is not easily amenable by political policy.
Because politics has become one of the only arenas in which Americans can collectively discuss the quality of their social relations and their sense of morality, politicians will at least have to learn to address an America that is wealthier and lonelier, that has higher standards of living but lives marked by quiet desperation, that works hard but doesn't know why anymore.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/social-treasury-of-america-is-depleting/
The youngest Americans, the ones using social media the most, are socializing the least "Irl."
When I talk to people, I refer to these trends as the depletion and disappearance of a social treasury.
It's easy to see how the depletion of the social treasure informs the politics of the Right's populists.
They may have the wherewithal, the talents, and the preexisting social capital to successfully navigate a world in which their communal life has been almost entirely displaced by a networking life.
They throw themselves more fully into careers and social milieux that run on a more disguised form of conditional favor-trading, rather than reciprocal duties.
Because politics has become one of the only arenas in which Americans can collectively discuss the quality of their social relations and their sense of morality, politicians will at least have to learn to address an America that is both wealthier and lonelier.
The decline of the social treasury is not easily amenable by political policy.
Because politics has become one of the only arenas in which Americans can collectively discuss the quality of their social relations and their sense of morality, politicians will at least have to learn to address an America that is wealthier and lonelier, that has higher standards of living but lives marked by quiet desperation, that works hard but doesn't know why anymore.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/social-treasury-of-america-is-depleting/
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