In America, so many of our shared spaces, such as public transit, are so horrendous and poorly maintained that it forces everyone into antisocial patterns
You ride the MTA and everyone’s staring at their phones because otherwise they’d be looking around at everyone’s stern faces scowling at the homeless person shitting all over the train
There’s no sense of togetherness in America
Everyone is atomized
We need a cultural revolution against the Alienation of capital
On the other hand, I believe that even so-called “atomizing” material factors such as Car culture can actually be pro-social given the correct cultural conditions