About this episode
The episode discusses the decline of community and connection in modern society, exploring the concept of the 'third place' and its implications on loneliness and social interaction.
We knocked down the load-bearing walls and called it progress. This week Keith and Gerren dig into what we actually gave up — the third place, intergenerational family, shared child rearing, the male social ecosystem, and the spaces where doctor, lawyer, janitor, and teacher used to just exist together without any of that mattering. Ray Oldenburg coined the term "third place" in 1989. In 1990, only 3% of Americans had no close friends outside family. Today that's 20%. The loneliness epidemic is not a phone addiction problem. It's seventy years of being told you don't need other people — and now we've stopped doing community so thoroughly we don't know how anymore. Part two of three. Part three next week: what do we actually do about it. Key Topics: The third place and its collapse, the data on loneliness and friendship, Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, intergenerational community, shared child rearing, Día de los Muertos, the CIA veteran who never felt less free than back home. Find Us: 🌐 https://www.moreincommonent.com 📸 https://www.instagram.com/moreincommonent 🐦 https://twitter.com/MoreInCommonent 📘 https://www.facebook.com/moreincommonpod Gerren Taylor: 🎵…
People in this episode
Hosts: Keith, Gerren
Topics covered
- third place
- loneliness
- community
- intergenerational family
- shared child rearing
- social ecosystems
Keywords
- third place
- loneliness epidemic
- community
- intergenerational
- shared child rearing
- social connection
- Bowling Alone
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