Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

There was this period we talked about a lot of a very rapid atomisation from the late 60s through to the 90s and early 00s. My sense is that the internet has reversed some of that, people have stitched themselves back together in new kinds of ways. That has happened in a context where there hasn’t been much political organising on the ground, but there has been a lot of political ideas and people have attached themselves to them.

Richard Hames

https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/novara-fm-how-maga-went-mainstream-w-joshua-citarella

#atomisation #individualisation #massSociety #mobilisation #postNeoliberalCivics #postpandemicCivics

Is #celebrity an unavoidable feature of #MassSociety? Or is it a mechanism of #alienation we should be working to abolish? Watching #StrangerThings sent me down a weird-ass rabbit hole on this topic.

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