I am not religious and have no desire to start being now but sometimes I just want the community people get with church. I am craving connection with the community and feel it’s very healthy for families and neighbors as well. The United States is seriously lacking in third spaces and communities. It’s leading to a serious loneliness epidemic… Just wondering if there is anything that can fill that need for non-religious folks?
It’s the genious of western social engineering that it is almost unthinkable.
It would require those third places, people who don’t reject each other and an activity that is more fun than watching TV.
Halloween, beaches and (street) festivals, conventions and online games have a bit of it.
If that place would exist, people would change politics. But it can’t because nobody can afford the space for people to do nothing.
The easiest would be to repurpose parts of a dying mall and turn it in a place for cosplayers to meet.