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Title: Other Possible Reasons Social Capital Has Decayed
Review: Dr. Putman's social capital destroying "suspects" (featuring TV) are solid. Here are some other candidates for future consideration: 1. Interest in genealogy/history (a.k.a. backward-temporal communities). 2. Rampant progenyism as acted out in hyper-child centricity/ kidolatry--may be associated with the fall of faith. 3. Layering on of additional very weak but still cumulatively important (and time requiring) domains of community, e.g. financial markets since we are now mostly security (stocks and/or bonds) holders and just the privatization of retirement planning in general. Maybe even some "Main-drain" from NAFTA, NATO and the general expansion of a global consciousness. 4. The increase in "homework" required to keep up to date with best pratices in a job. 5. The democratization of reading via another "screen": the affordable, pocket paperback book.
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