Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beneath the fluorescent lights of the alley, we get to know Professor Putnam up close and in the lane. In the heat of the game, we capture his personal technique, find out what he thinks about candlepin, and attempt--between frames--to grasp his theories of the decline of social capital in America with a bowler's grip...
...name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...when I say that it's bad that we're bowling alone, I mean that as human beings--physical and social--things don't work as well when we don't have that connection...
...smoke continues to drift over, Putnam approaches the lane for his next bowl, staring down the white pins in the florescent light. Returning to his seat as the pins are reset again, Putnam gets on a roll, so to speak, about the historical context of our social capital problem...
...totally alone comes with the Internet, with TV and multiple cable channels. That technological capability in the short run allows us to get exactly what we want--exactly what we want alone." However, Putnam claims, in getting one thing that we want, we lose something that we need--the social interaction that used to come with a performance...