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                                                  December 02, 2012
                                                  August   26, 2013
                                                  November 29, 2018

   For many years, we've made do with 
   social centers disguised as market 
   places... the rise of the internet-as-
   market undermines this.


   Many things that we do have an
   ostensible purpose, plus some
   secondary ones that are supposed
   to be by-products, but the
   secondary ones are often more            The one remaining
   prominent than we give them              exception seems to
   credit.  "Going shopping", is            be restaurants.
   supposed to be about acquiring           Going out to eat
   stuff, but really it's about             together is clearly
   getting out into public,                 more social than not,
   engaging (in a low-key,                  but the need to eat
   unchallenging way) with some of          provides a tiny bit
   your fellow humans.                      of cover...

   Instead of activities whose
   real point is what's supposed
   to be a serendipitous by-product,
   we have to admit to ourselves
   what we're really after, and
   take active steps to arrange it.

       This is a change we may
       complain about, but it's
       not an unmixed curse.



                             December 02, 2012

With the inevitable death of the brick-and-mortar
bookstore, anti-social intellectuals will need
new excuses (stand-ins?) for social interaction.       April 13, 2013

   We're going to see the                              My sister has started
   return of clubs, salons,                            a history reading
   and so on, and to some                              group via "meetup".
   extent I think we are.                              She has to schedule
                                                       multiple gatherings
                                                       on a weekend to keep
                                                       from turning people
                                                       away.
                                                                 SUNFISH







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