Notjustbikes would radicalize this comments section. The USA is not built for children. It's built to isolate people working 40 hours a week and commuting another 10 so they can be tired and defeated at the end of the day. youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw?... - ThreadSky

ladymittens.bsky.social • 34 days ago

Notjustbikes would radicalize this comments section. The USA is not built for children. It's built to isolate people working 40 hours a week and commuting another 10 so they can be tired and defeated at the end of the day. https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw?si=ESTQaAoAOlMuKTA2

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jojothepogo.bsky.social•34 days ago

I don’t think anyone intentionally built suburbs to isolate. IMO, the breakdown of family units, in which jobs aren’t avlbl in your hometown so you move away + the decline of church and social clubs and the rise of TV hasn’t been good for American mental health. I joined a Rotary Club 😌.

butcher99.bsky.social•34 days ago

The decline of the church? The best thing that could happen is to get rid of the mega churches to start with. I read a book about how to get rich without even trying.. Start a mega church.

jojothepogo.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’m not pro church. I’m saying that when church was an expected activity, people had a place to socialize. We haven’t really rebuilt that place to socialize. That’s the problem with suburbs. People go home, close the garage door, and never socialize outside social media.

pfmla4all.bsky.social•34 days ago

Suburbs were explicitly built to isolate, what are you talking about? The whole design of suburbs was create spaces away from people of color where those with a modicum of privilege could flee to.

jojothepogo.bsky.social•33 days ago

Condescend much? I agree with you, but what I’m saying is that suburbs also prevent ppl from socializing as much. Farther from neighbors, not as many socialization activities, the end of forced social activities like church (good or bad, don’t care how you look at it). More screens, less real life.

ladymittens.bsky.social•33 days ago

I suggest this channel! Both are true! Originally suburbs were for getting away from the city, but we had street calls to connect us, and people still connected at family events and picnics. It is not normal for families to be spread across the state and country.

ladymittens.bsky.social•33 days ago

The only time I see both of my brothers is if an immediate family member has died. That is not normal or right. We demonize people who "live in their mom's basement" when multi-generational homes have been the norm for millennia.

ladymittens.bsky.social•33 days ago

Many social scientists have been sounding the alarm about declining church attendance not because of the downfall of religion but because humans are social creatures that need community. They need to see each other, est food, and help each other. They will find religion one way or another.

ripcitybassworks.bsky.social•34 days ago

Suburbs were literally built to isolate: the "modern" suburbs were created for segregation purposes and continue to do that job fairly well. The added "bonus" was that suburbanites were able to force destructive freeway projects through mostly minority urban neighborhoods...

jojothepogo.bsky.social•33 days ago

Okay, but could you say this less condescendingly? You make a valid point. I’m saying that suburbs don’t present many opportunities for socialization and they were built at a time when social activities were changing. And now we just go home and watch TV. I think, also a valid point.

dragonmamma.bsky.social•34 days ago

Church is where tons of child abuse and isolation of women happens. I've had better mental health since I stopped. Also suburbs were definitely built to isolate, please read more books

jojothepogo.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’m not saying church is a good thing. I’m saying it was a way for people to socialize back in the day and that hasn’t been replaced with anything else. This platform is full a bunch of exasperating ppl who want to provoke arguments. I could say the sky is blue and somebody would argue with me.

dragonmamma.bsky.social•33 days ago

I get it. But it's a point worth arguing for a lot of us survivors who every day are put in a position of discomfort for not going to church..at jobs, losing families, friends, holidays, politics, child raising, schools. Please don't think it's about you specifically. It's a huge sticky point.

jojothepogo.bsky.social•32 days ago

You’re talking about ppl like me who don’t go to church because it’s not the same loving church I was raised in and whose parents harp on her for not going. Still, I am not going to waste my time arguing with someone because, oh no, they said the word “church” as a forgone place to socialize.

dragonmamma.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://www.ushistory.org/us/53b.asp#:~:text=William%20Levitt%20revolutionized%20the%20way,Keeping%20Up%20with%20the%20Joneses
Your argument ignores the purposeful isolation of suburbs and then insists on the lack of social clubs and TV as the cause, rather than the symptom. The less people needed each other the less we know how to be around each other

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