Keynote Address TCS 2015
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The Rise in Living Alone is the Biggest Modern Social Change that
We’ve Yet to Name or Identify
It Doesn’t Mean What We Think
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The unmarried:Sick, Neurotic, Immoral
Dying Alone
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Social Experiment
1949: Family Unit is Universal“The nuclear family is a
universal human social grouping…”
“No exception, at least, has come to light.”
How did this happen?What does it mean?
Why do the most privileged people on earth use their resources to
separate from one another and get places of their own?
FreedomPersonal ControlSelf-Realization
SolitudeConnection
Loneliness
“There’s nothing lonelier than living with the wrong person.”
Social Isolation?
Matthew Brashears, Co-author, Cornell U:
“I certainly don’t think it’s reliable.”
Chronicle of Higher Education. Feb 3, 2012