Comments on: Thy Name is Social Alienation http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/12/29/thy-name-is-social-alienation/ Not Your Grandfather's Conservatism Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.7 By: Man for all seasons http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/12/29/thy-name-is-social-alienation/#comment-9172 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:17:50 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=1014#comment-9172 This reminds me of Robert Putnam and his studies about the social effects of ‘diversity':

People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down’, that is, to pull in like a turtle

A great cinematic portrayal of social alienation is Taxi Driver.

Isolation and atomization also lead to widespread depression.

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