we blame social media, polarization, stuff in the water, the u.s. culture of overwork -- all of which are factors-- but my lived experience suggests that the most central driver of isolation, anomie and despair in America is the fact that most of us no longer live in a way that makes it easy to bump into neighbors and turn them into friends
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Christopher Mims
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