The BIGGEST Thing Our Society is Missing Today #shorts

15 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Modern society has lost its sense of community as churches, temples, and civic organizations like Rotary and Lions Club have declined. The speaker connects this erosion of communal bonds to rising rates of mental illness and depression, noting that people are simply less connected than they used to be.

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I think this is the thing our society is missing the most right now. Like, we've really just killed community. We used to live very, very connected lives in our communities, in our churches or temples or mosques, in all sorts of— in Rotary and Lions Club, whatever it was, right? Like, all sorts of different organizations that allowed us, forced us to feel and be connected. And that's gone away. And that, I mean, he argues that that's, you know, the in and of itself explains the rise of mental illness and depression and things like that. You have to read the book and decide whether you agree with that science, but I think we can certainly say definitively that we are less connected. Mm-hmm.