Absolutely agree friendship has come massively under fire in recent years. Social media absolutely has a role but even deeper than that the economic system itself (information economy) that moves people around regularly, promotes generic homogeneous suburbs with no social bonds, and creates adversarial relationships at work as people compete for bonuses and promotions plays a major role too. Of important note this isn’t just a feature of capitalism since you could have those same features in leftist or reactionary right regimes as well. The demise of organized religion certainly also has a role.
Great video, and I don't want to believe that it's dead. 🤞
Not yet!
If you want friends, learn Esperanto.
https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_schor_the_transformative_vision_of_esperanto
Absolutely agree friendship has come massively under fire in recent years. Social media absolutely has a role but even deeper than that the economic system itself (information economy) that moves people around regularly, promotes generic homogeneous suburbs with no social bonds, and creates adversarial relationships at work as people compete for bonuses and promotions plays a major role too. Of important note this isn’t just a feature of capitalism since you could have those same features in leftist or reactionary right regimes as well. The demise of organized religion certainly also has a role.