I'm combining two topics that we covered in class today: Bonding social capital and isolation. We talked about how bonding social capital manifests itself in the crossover between communities. Our example was Marissa looking for a nursing job talking to me, and me having a theoretical uncle who works at Mayo to get her one. I feel like this is a sort of shallow example. Yes, it's the connections between people that eventually form social capital, but the connections need to be stronger. Like an environmentalist group teaming up with a group that provides low cost solar panels for small businesses. There need to be more, stronger bonds to generate the capital our society really needs to thrive.
As for movies, I am not a fan. I'm not saying I don't like movies themselves; they can be fantastic art forms, and I definitely have favorites (500 Days of Summer, Mean Creak, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie Bartlett, and Dead Poet's Society included...) but I don't like what they do to groups of people. When you go into a movie with your friends, in essence, you're sitting in a dark room for 2.5 hours being silent. Yes, you can laugh together and whatnot, but imagine what else you could do for 2.5 hours? I suppose it's slightly different if you're watching it in the background at someone's house. I just think it's similar to how Putnam said TV started the move towards isolated individualism.
Basically this is me just wishing it was socially acceptable to talk to movies.
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