Theory Matters • 0 implied HN points • 19 Feb 26
- Technology and AI are changing how people make and keep friends; they can provide companionship but also deepen loneliness and enable harmful behavior.
- Social bonds are weakening in ways that spill into politics, turning personal relationships and everyday institutions into battlegrounds and eroding solidarity.
- We need clearer ideas of what friendship is to rebuild it; classical views that value friends for who they are offer a guide, and using modern political theory to explain these changes should be done with caution.