i love any chance to engage with sociologists and their life’s work !! great doc but it’s message got muddied by the second half :( so many great points and patterns found in political unrest, isolation and mental health struggles, public health and safety crises, etc. and their relation to people’s ability to form community, but the barriers to create that community was so shallowly explained!! Especially considering the relationship to social capital and the digital sphere. I suppose they had to keep it more neutral considering the politicians involved in the project, but the message I got was there are incentives for public officials/people in power to
Keep americans individualized because it upholds systems of power and oppression. I know the whole point was that our decline of clubs and organizing is killing us, but they don’t do much to address the social and financial consequences that emerged when americans organized Too Much, or even how ones location impacts their ability to join.
TLDR; great doc! needs a more clear call to action and VISION of what it looks like for a person who’s never formed community like that before. we see the end products, not much of the current process to Get There.
i love any chance to engage with sociologists and their life’s work !! great doc but it’s message got muddied by the second half :( so many great points and patterns found in political unrest, isolation and mental health struggles, public health and safety crises, etc. and their relation to people’s ability to form community, but the barriers to create that community was so shallowly explained!! Especially considering the relationship to social capital and the digital sphere. I suppose they had to keep it more neutral considering the politicians involved in the project, but the message I got was there are incentives for public officials/people in power to
Keep americans individualized because it upholds systems of power and oppression. I know the whole point was that our decline of clubs and organizing is killing us, but they don’t do much to address the social and financial consequences that emerged when americans organized Too Much, or even how ones location impacts their ability to join.
TLDR; great doc! needs a more clear call to action and VISION of what it looks like for a person who’s never formed community like that before. we see the end products, not much of the current process to Get There.
