Worried about the Future? Join the Club
Update: 2025-11-19
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There’s the book club, the Rotary Club, the Mickey Mouse Club, and the club sandwich. Whatever your preference, you might want to think about joining a club. Social clubs, fraternal orders, and the like have had a storied and critical role in public life. That is, until government programs and technology gave us an out from having to deal with each other. But with modernity failing, will clubs and community organizations make a huge comeback? In this episode we explore club life – past, present, and future, if there is one. Originally recorded on 11/6/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- John Michael Greer, "Secret Handshakes," The Archdruid Report, January 21, 2010.
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 65, "Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual"
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