Capitalism, positivism, and post-modernism have all eroded those things.
When we have less free time, and everything is commoditised and given a monetary value, interhuman connection - which resists the economic lens - falls by the wayside, as the modern “homo-economous” values only what has a price tag.
When gathering spaces, and natural groupings are either made to focus on money or wither, there is no space for community in a casual sense.
The death of meaning with the rise of post-modernism also means that grand narratives, and the myths of belonging have also lost a lot of their power to a rightful dose of skepticism. (Descriptive rather than prescriptive, but probably did speed things up a bit.)
For examples, classical and neoclassical economics really run away with “selfish people maximising self interest”, to the point try to reframe family decisions as “intra-family bargaining”, and Maggie said “there is no such thing as society, only the individual and family” (because as a Tory she couldn’t admit to tearing those apart).
Capitalism, positivism, and post-modernism have all eroded those things.
When we have less free time, and everything is commoditised and given a monetary value, interhuman connection - which resists the economic lens - falls by the wayside, as the modern “homo-economous” values only what has a price tag.
When gathering spaces, and natural groupings are either made to focus on money or wither, there is no space for community in a casual sense.
The death of meaning with the rise of post-modernism also means that grand narratives, and the myths of belonging have also lost a lot of their power to a rightful dose of skepticism. (Descriptive rather than prescriptive, but probably did speed things up a bit.)
Capitalism will eat us all.
For examples, classical and neoclassical economics really run away with “selfish people maximising self interest”, to the point try to reframe family decisions as “intra-family bargaining”, and Maggie said “there is no such thing as society, only the individual and family” (because as a Tory she couldn’t admit to tearing those apart).