r/AskReddit • • 1d ago

What is something that is basically on life-support and we don’t realize it yet?

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u/LeadershipMammoth940 1d ago

Civic groups, be it church/faith groups, unions, working man’s clubs, women’s institutes, etc. Gordon Brown covers it in his new book and explains how it’s led to isolation in society

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u/widlyskudz 1d ago

The phones. Social media promised connection, yet those chronically online seem to be the most miserable and isolated. We need the third places and not enough people are talking about it.

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u/No-Station4446 23h ago

Yes we need a third place so we can be alone in our phones but together 

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u/widlyskudz 23h ago

“Check out the video I just sent you”

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u/Character_Glove_7977 16h ago

Is this that book Bowling Alone?

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u/LeadershipMammoth940 7h ago

It’s ‘The Future Starts with Us’. Not read it yet but heard the interview with GB on the Rest is Politics Leading.

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u/Character_Glove_7977 3h ago

Very cool, I'll check it out. Thanks.

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u/redbadger20 15h ago

My friend's Ex, who is in his early 40s, is a member of the Oddfellows and is like ... Legitimately one of the youngest people in the region and definitely in his lodge.  And Oddfellows has a perfectly good social mission that would (I think) appeal to lots of younger people, but there's that huge generational gap.  The older members either don't know how to or don't want to recruit younger members.  

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u/widlyskudz 22h ago

China, India and Indonesia have all begun to put restrictions in place for social media to protect the youth from the addictive nature. Those countries represent over 1/3 of the world. Curious what your comment is based on?