What frustrates me about the U.S. at least is that the way we’ve built our infrastructure forces that isolation.
We bounce between work and our homes buried in the middle of the suburbs.
We basically have no interaction with people outside work except maybe in checkout lines with cashiers unless we make a special effort to go to some meetup group or out with friends.
No wonder there’s a loneliness epidemic. No wonder we’re so politically divided and hostile.Our infrastructure practically guarantees that we stay in our echo chambers and never hear other perspectives in person. We end up dehumanizing people because we only read their opinions in angry social media posts.
Compare that to European countries that have neighborhood restaurants where people can hang out with others in their community just a quick walk from home. Or multi family homes built around a common play area so kids can play together instead of depending on their parents to schedule play dates.
We’ve made this a miserable place to live.
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