JOIN OR DIE Trailer

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JOIN OR DIE Trailer - official movie trailer HD
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00:01This is Bob. Bob's a big fan of clubs.
00:06I belong to everything.
00:08That's my high school bowling team. I'm the tall one in the middle.
00:11And this is a film about why you should join one,
00:14and how Bob discovered that the fate of America depends on it.
00:20This is Harvard professor and award-winning writer Robert Putnam.
00:23You've been described as the poet laureate of civil society.
00:26Robert D. Putnam.
00:28Deepening our understanding of community in America.
00:31He made people pay attention to a concept that most people had never paid attention to.
00:35Social capital. Social capital. Social capital.
00:38Social networks have value.
00:41I'd like to call on professor Robert Putnam, who gave us the concept of social capital.
00:46The number of people who know one another's first name,
00:48the number of people who take part in community organizations,
00:51the level of trust and reciprocity in the community.
00:53The places that have better government are the places that have a long history of social networks and social capital.
01:00Your chances of dying over the next year are cut in half by joining one group.
01:06Bowling Alone. Where'd you get the title?
01:09I happened to run into a friend who owned a bowling alley,
01:12and he said, gosh, Bob, you don't know it,
01:14but you've stumbled onto the major economic problems facing my industry.
01:17Because although more Americans are bowling than ever before,
01:20bowling is up in America.
01:22Bowling in leagues, bowling in teams, is off by about 60%.
01:27Everything that reflects connections with other people are going down.
01:30How many times last year did you go to church?
01:32Down.
01:33How many times did you go to a dinner party?
01:35Down.
01:36How many times last year did you go to a club meeting?
01:38In barely a couple of decades, half all the civic infrastructure in America had simply vanished.
01:44It's equivalent to saying half of all the roads in America just disappeared.
01:48Everyone has a feeling something's happening,
01:50but then he's got charts to actually show what's actually happening.
01:54Whatever's happening to people's sense of mutual obligation,
01:56to their understanding about the common good,
01:58to their willingness to trust their neighbor,
02:00is no longer going on because people are bowling alone.
02:03The book Bowling Alone, which you're familiar with by Robert Putnam.
02:06The activity may still be going on, but there's no social capital being built.
02:09That decreases the trust we have in one another.
02:11How lonely Americans are, how divided.
02:13You know, he may have been onto something.
02:16We have to see loneliness as a threat to our health security and to our overall national security.
02:21We are trying something that hasn't been done before,
02:23which is growing and sustaining a multiracial democracy.
02:26Politics and policy ultimately depends on the social health of our country.
02:31Organization, connections with other people, is the only way you get big change.
02:36Democracy is a pain in the ass.
02:38If it was just easy, no one would have to go to a meeting and it would all just be fair and easy.
02:43You should join, your kids should join.
02:45And if there's not an organization you want to join, create one.
02:48America doesn't have to be the kind of America that you've lived in your whole life.
02:52You could decide to change history.