Thesis: The decline of IRL activity is both a cause and a symptom of the decay of the US Of course i

Thesis: The decline of IRL activity is both a cause and a symptom of the decay of the US

Of course if you buy this, you have to buy that the US is in cultural decline. I resisted this for a while but I've become convinced that it is.

If people get together more, that rebuilds the culture. The culture suffers when people aren't interacting in person. The more they do, the stronger it is.

What especially makes it stronger is if people encounter people who aren't in their natural group, age, social class, area of interest. That really builds connction.

• Social collisions are good.
• Something about the internet has hollowed out third-spaces.