Bowling Alone is popular with social scientists and on the alt-right. It's a kind of anti-shut-in book in general and a commentary on the collapse of community in America. Bowling leagues, civic groups, the masons, even churches - things that increasingly atomized Americans just don't do anymore.
My Unitarian sociologist buddy, no alt-right type of any kind, even in being familiar with it, mentioned it out of the blue, and his social circle is mostly bourgeois shitlib and leftist academic types.
Joe_McCarthy -1 points 1 month ago
Bowling Alone is popular with social scientists and on the alt-right. It's a kind of anti-shut-in book in general and a commentary on the collapse of community in America. Bowling leagues, civic groups, the masons, even churches - things that increasingly atomized Americans just don't do anymore.
My Unitarian sociologist buddy, no alt-right type of any kind, even in being familiar with it, mentioned it out of the blue, and his social circle is mostly bourgeois shitlib and leftist academic types.