It's certainly an important and significant relation which is pointed out here. But this is only one side of the medal. The other side is that (particularly young) people are dragged away from these public spaces by individual digital media consumption provided by powerful moguls using seductive and addictive offers and algorithms to capture people's attention and lifetimes.
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I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought. -
“As a Jewish Australian who spent considerable time in Israel, I noticed, decades ago, something unsettling: a hardening of emotional life and a gradual erosion of empathy toward anyone outside the Zionist frame.@aral
This suggests that, analogous to the de-nazification in Germany after WW2, a comprehensive de-zionisation of Israeli society was necessary. However, like in Germany, this can only succeed after a complete defeat of the Israeli army and state apparatus. The problem is that there is no coalition of allied forces in sight who are willing to bring this about.