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Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out - The Atlantic

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Too much aloneness is creating a crisis of social fitness.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 15:13 This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here . In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citizens’ extroversion. Americans weren’t just setting out to build new churches and new cities. Their associations were, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “of a thousand different types … religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute.” Americans seemed adept at forming social groups: political associations, labor unio

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