America's loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations
A lack of shared philosophy means there&#x27;s no open, shared spaces. Like tonight, I&#x27;m going to a Knights of Columbus meeting. On Thursday, we&#x27;re leading marriage prep at our church. On Monday, it&#x27;s my men&#x27;s club meeting. Later in the month, we&#x27;re having a church BBQ. Most of the time, we&#x27;re over socialized.<p>For the elderly, we have a shut-ins ministry to visit them. For the poor, the Vincent de Paul society still goes two-by-two to all those who have asked. We&#x27;ve gotten rid of churches, replaced them with nothing particularly inspiring, and now we&#x27;re wondering where all the social cohesion went.<p>EDIT: I will point out that I&#x27;m not restricting myself only to churches here. I think, in the past, America also had this characteristic -- anyone who believed in American ideals and sought to further them was an American. De Tocqueville mentioned this quality of Americans (every American is a president) in his various writings on American social structure. Unfortunately with the rise of identity politics and ethnic factionalism, we&#x27;ve lost this notion of &#x27;America as an idea&#x27;, as is seen in the reluctance of people to serve on juries, for example.