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I'm not sure the official name for that is but I call it the "shared experience." Obviously something that pulls us together, but recently with less and less of it we're becoming islands in a sea of nothingness.


Shares at least some overlap with a "ritual of common knowledge": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1116212.Rational_Ritual


The old Scheme programmer in me calls it a closure!


If it was an airplane movie the better phrase might be "trauma bonding" :)

I agree, though, it is very easy to isolate nowadays. And fewer and fewer third spaces exist if one were looking to interact.


Collective effervescence?




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