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The Antidote to Authoritarianism
An absence of neighborhood might be “devastating” not only for our social lives but in addition for our democracy, the battle decision facilitator Priya Parker tells Ezra Klein.
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And In America, the place the price of labor is excessive, you’re doing all the pieces your self. You’re cooking and also you’re caring for the youngsters and also you’re not in an intergenerational family the place the load might be distributed amongst totally different individuals, a few of whom are working full- time, a few of whom will not be, and you’ve got stay-at-home, normally, ladies. – And it —— – It’s got to present. One thing’s received to present. And it appears to me that what provides is neighborhood. – What provides is internet hosting. – one hundred pc. It’s simpler to be alone. Nicely, we are saying that, but it surely’s really devastating. I ought to say short-term — it’s simpler on the query of the day to be alone. Sure. Like, if Individuals don’t collect extra, if we — and there’s so some ways to do it. We’ll slide much more into authoritarianism as a result of we really don’t know one another. Each authorized professional in authoritarianism principally says the antidote to authoritarianism is connection. It’s realizing your neighbors. It’s realizing that, hey, how unhealthy might they be? Their first live performance was a Toni Braxton live performance, proper. It’s these tiny little social bridges. And a part of fashionable life, I feel, isn’t assuming that there’s a option to host. Not assuming — I virtually wish to go over there and get this framework of a elaborate banquet or no matter your psychological mannequin is of what it means to collect out of your head.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Present’
February 3, 2026