From Company Man, Family Dinners & Affluence to Home Office, Blackberry Moms and Economic Anxiety

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 18:31

Welcome to Elsewhere, USA where the American individual has become extinct. Our culture is populated by ΓÇ£intravidualsΓÇ¥, fractured people who struggle to juggle professional, familial and personal pursuits. The division between home and office has been all but demolished; our weightless, wireless economy urges us to work 24/7; marketing has invaded the most intimate aspects of our lives; leisure has become a lost art. Much of these changes can be connected to relatively invisible sociological changes: womenΓÇÖs increasing participation in the labor force; rising economic inequality generating anxiety; the idea of the ΓÇ£individualΓÇ¥ being replaced by the need to play different roles in the various realms of oneΓÇÖs existence.