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Bowling Alone

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Book by Robert Putnam containing a 1914 Walter Lippmann quote about societal disconnection and the challenges of complex civilization

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"A quote that I found in the book "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam that I thought was interesting"
We are unsettled to the very roots of our being · dreamtiwasabulld0zer · ↑140 · 2021-11-23
"One of the biggest reasons that we're all atomized and bowling alone is that we've become super transient. But I know that a bunch of my friends and cousins living in big expensive cities are working WFH email jobs and they could just as easily live here where they could start to rebuild the communi"
Please start taking the hometown pill so I don't feel so alone · u/Illustrious_Train186 · ↑74 · 2024-09-07
"It's strange, knowing on the one hand that a thesis like Bowling Alone's is out there and on the other being witness to the kind of ruin that eats away at these small communities whose members all practice their arts in isolation now and only because they love it."
Having human experiences post-COVID · u/Oedipa-Aass · ↑38 · 2022-10-20
"Tried to buy bowling alone on kindle while my girlfriend was in the toilet but then don't have it in that format :("
Went bowling for the first time in probably a decade tonight · u/ChewingGumOnTable · ↑33 · 2025-07-10
"Tried to buy bowling alone on kindle while my girlfriend was in the toilet but then don't have it in that format"
Went bowling for the first time in probably a decade tonight · u/ChewingGumOnTable · ↑33 · 2025-07-10
"it sure seems like there's been a precipitous drop in male camaraderie and social association in general over the past few decades (see: *Bowling Alone*)."
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