by Chris Black
That’s friendship in the 1990s (www.jstor.org/stable/522486) vs. friendship today (archive.vn/BgnRP).
Two major factors are to blame for this: Left-Wing politics and modern technology.
Every single agenda pushed by the Left (multiracialism, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-traditional culture) fragments society, destroys cohesion, increases isolation, decreases trust, and so on.
It’s basically a recipe for making people lonely and miserable.
In addition to this, the psychotic behavior of modern Leftists (snitching on their friends and family, ruining lives for the tiniest of thought crimes) has created a culture of distrust, similar to the USSR.
The technological aspect is straightforward: we’ve all sat in a restaurant and noticed tables full of people silently staring down at their mobile phones.
Social media provides simulated friendship, the internet provides endless escapism, more people are working remotely, etc.