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the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration Book 11)
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Sabel goes on to observe that work in the restructured economy reduces the employee’s freedom or autonomy because individuals are urged to consider their entire private life as a series of social networks meant to ensure their continuous employability.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Sarah Tavel • The Era of Participatory Social
Those networks have largely disappeared, replaced by networks based outside the local community. We shop and interact... See more
Why we need to design community into neighborhoods
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA
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Yet the cultural dominance of the iPhone — and the transformation of the open internet into “walled gardens” and apps focused on simplifying the user experience — has taken the “triumph of seamless usability” to a new level. This “tyranny of convenience,” to borrow Tim Wu’s phrase , should sensitize us to what may be lost when democratization
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