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The Anti-Social Century
The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress. But if one cascade brought us into an anti-social century, another can bring about a social century. New norms are possible; they’re being created all the time. Independent bookstores are booming—the Ameri... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Instead of dismissing all technology, the Amish adopt only those innovations that support their religious and communal values.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Digital communication has already prepared us for AI companionship, Fagone said, by transforming many of our physical-world relationships into a sequence of text chimes and blue bubbles. “I think part of why AI-companion apps have proven so seductive so quickly is that most of our relationships already happen exclusively through the phone,” he said... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Although chaotically inclined individuals score highly in a popular measure for loneliness, they don’t seem to seek the obvious remedy. “What they’re reaching out to get isn’t friendship at all but rather recognition and status,” Petersen said. For many socially isolated men in particular, for whom reality consists primarily of glowing screens in e... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
“I think people feel uncomfortable in the world today. They’ve decided that their home is their sanctuary. It’s not easy to get them to leave.”
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
“I think part of why AI-companion apps have proven so seductive so quickly is that most of our relationships already happen exclusively through the phone,” he said.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Although chaotically inclined individuals score highly in a popular measure for loneliness, they don’t seem to seek the obvious remedy. “What they’re reaching out to get isn’t friendship at all but rather recognition and status,” Petersen said. For many socially isolated men in particular, for whom reality consists primarily of glowing screens in e... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
If progressives still consider MAGA an alien movement, it is in part because they have made themselves strangers in their own land.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
of Trump’s success may be that he is an avatar of the all-tribe, no-village style of performative confrontation.