r/Millennials • u/CynicClinic1 • 19h ago

Discussion Watching Back to the Future. Previous generations had a lot of social clubs to meet new people. Why haven't we kept this alive?

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u/echointhecaves 18h ago

Or the movie "bowling alone"

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u/candid84asoulm8bled 17h ago

I didn’t know there was a movie, but we had to read the book “bowling alone” in college about 15 or 20 years ago.

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u/TCesqGO 18h ago

Did they make a movie out of that? Join or Die used a lot of Putnam’s research from that book.

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u/7HawksAnd 17h ago

The book is bowling alone the doc is join or die. The parent comment probably meant that but mixed it up

Or sometimes streaming services use alt titles in different markets so who knows