For my entire adolescent and adult life, the concept of ‘social atomisation’ has been bandied about, noted as a process that’s well underway and likely to have dramatic consequences. It was typically, in my experience, spoken about as something that would mainly affect us at some future time, rather than in the present.
Well, a look through a photo album recently confirmed to me that we were likely optimistic about how long it would take for social atomisation to make itself felt, because if the reality those pictures conveyed was in any way accurate, the world is not as it was.
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