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The Antisocial Century: Being Connected Isolates Us

Summary by La Silla Vacía
In February of this year, The Atlantic published “The Anti-Social Century,” a report by Derek Thompson that documents the rise of voluntary isolation in the United States: from the explosion of the food model to the boom of “dining alone” – eating alone in a restaurant – and replacing shared rituals with domestic experiences. What is alarming is not only the increase in loneliness, but how this rupture of the social fabric erodes what the author…
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In February of this year, The Atlantic published “The Anti-Social Century,” a report by Derek Thompson that documents the rise of voluntary isolation in the United States: from the explosion of the food model to the boom of “dining alone” – eating alone in a restaurant – and replacing shared rituals with domestic experiences. What is alarming is not only the increase in loneliness, but how this rupture of the social fabric erodes what the author…

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La Silla Vacía broke the news in on Friday, July 18, 2025.
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