IMO, electronic media has created social alienation resulting in an overly selfish society lacking that community agreement of what is doing the right thing for the betterment of Aus.
The social glue that held suburbs together, namely chats across the fence, getting together to go to the tip or doing a job for a neighbour has been commercialised and of course the neighbourly back yard barbie with a tinny or two was lost in the 80s, IMO.
We are simply at the stage of social disintegration that the US was at in the 70s (I worked there for a few years then)
Our only green shoots of suburban community left is a few greyies who volunteer and trim the nature strip for a pensioner or pick up the shopping etc.
The rest is uber this or uber that , buy online dial a tradie @ $100/hour;no DIYers with the neighbours pitching in eh....a thing of the past?
Can you imagine a dozen from Hot Copper in your back yard cracking a tinnie and shooting the breeze?.............tragically Na!
i guess the media has made us into commodity addicts where our everyday needs are productised, commercialised and monitised so that we are the equivalent to battery consumers caged in out little boxes.
Cheers MM
PS: Our last stay in France was in a rural farming/wine region and the people there were terrific despite our iPhone French. We were invited to our neighbours' homes, involved in community activities and treated like family.
