How do you reverse social atomisation? I spend a lot of time critiquing the breakdown of social bonds, and especially pointing out how difficult it is to create and sustain families with dependent children in the vacuum left by the breakdown of bonds.
But how do you resist, or even reverse it? This is, obviously, a complicated question. Some of atomisation is driven by large-scale political, technological, and economic pressures that are beyond my capacity as an individual to shift, or the space in this essay to change. But some of it is also about cultural habits and dispositions: as it were ingrained habits of fracture and loneliness.
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