Putnam's "Bowling Alone" documented a real decline in civic participation and community membership over recent decades—fewer PTAs, churches, leagues, and lodges—which means fewer places where strangers become neighbors. The question his work raises is whether we've simply moved belonging online and to smaller circles, or whether we've genuinely lost something essential.
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