The Death of Boredom and the Future of Politics

Can politics work without a civic sphere? How can we have a loneliness epidemic when we are connected like never before? It is a problem that perplexed Robert Putnam in " Bowling Alone ". He put it mostly down to TV, internet, and the growth of passive and isolated forms of entertainment generally. When you read between the lines of history of any time before about one hundred years ago, you…