The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America

[Odin]

This is a natural outcome of Late-Stage Capitalism, which generally destroys the natural, organic bonds of solidarity between people and forces them into a atomistic existence in a society that is commercialized from top to bottom and there is no public space free of debasement by the drive for private profit. People live anonymous lives in identical apartment blocks or identical suburban McMansions, nobody knows their neighbors.