The Fragmentation of Modern Society
2025-06-23 20:32
life

Modern society is overly fragmented in many ways:

1. Automobiles allow people to live far apart yet still be near to necessities.

2. Additionally, automobiles in a suburbs/community makes the public road space unsafe for children and unsafe for meetings, effectively driving another wedge between people.

3. Schools separate the young from the old, reducing family bonds & family influence. Modern public schools are not a meritocracy and tend to spread the worst values and ideas to children.

4. Social Security and retirement homes separate the elderly from the younger generations. What was once the responsibility of children now becomes a service provided by the government and by the business sector.

5. Lights and electricity split people across different shifts, making it even rarer that they encounter each other.

6. People spend dozens of hours a week watching television or playing video games or immersed in "social" media on smartphones. These are typically hours spent isolated from sunshine and from other people.

7. Phones and internet typically make it easier to find superficial anonymous relationships, while making it harder to find enduring, real-life friendships. You have to use them in a very specific way to make real, lasting friendships.

8. Churches are fragmented across thousands of denominations, most of which neither agree nor cooperate with others. This stunts community, state, and national activity. Moreover, this makes most churches appear ridiculous and weak, so that youths will want nothing to do with them.

9. Arranged marriages are basically done away with. Marrying young was the best way to ensure boys would become men—a necessary step to overcome and handle the duties and responsibilities that come with marriage. Instead, our generations are held back except for screwing around irresponsibly as youths, and as a result they divorce more than they reproduce. South Korea and Japan have national birth rates notoriously below replacement level; and the other western nations are heading towards that path as well.

10. Family trades and apprenticeship systems have been gutted out by school. Instead we train model citizens, who can memorize useless information for a few weeks before it's completely flushed out of their heads. This process contributes almost zero practical use on the job.

11. By failing to require mandatory military service of all men, we ensure further fragmentation and an overall lack of sense of duty.

The only remedy for this, of course, is for our nation(s) to be completely invaded and overthrown, like how it happened to Israel and Jerusalem in the Bible. Which is confirmed by our national permission to repeat the sins of Sodom and Egypt, allowing public display of sexual dysfunction and murdering our own children on the death-bound altars of convenience and personal finance.

Nevertheless, it would please me to see some small, bubbling spheres of improvement.