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Me, Me, Me - The Search for Community in Post-war England (Hardcover)
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Me, Me, Me - The Search for Community in Post-war England (Hardcover)
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Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has
become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume.
But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story
of England since the Second World War through the eyes of ordinary
people-including his own parents- to argue that, in fact,
friendship, family, and place all remain central to our daily
lives, and whilst community has changed, it is far from dead. He
shows how, in the years after the Second World War, people came
increasingly to question custom and tradition as the pressure to
conform to societal standards became intolerable. And as soon as
they could, millions escaped the closed, face-to-face communities
of Victorian Britain, where everyone knew your business. But this
was not a rejection of community per se, but an attempt to find
another, new way of living which was better suited to the modern
world. Community has become personal and voluntary, based on
genuine affection rather than proximity or need. We have never been
better connected or able to sustain the relationships that matter
to us. Me, Me, Me makes that case that it's time we valued and
nurtured these new groups, rather than lamenting the loss of more
'real' forms of community-it is all too easy to hold on to a
nostalgic view of the past.
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