You know these days senator so many pay attention rightfully so at least to thinking people to the economic category of social capital but it tends to be individualized individuals building losing spending earning social capital but the early idea of social capital was that society requires the common building of social capital contributing and you mentioned a parent in the home and volunteers in the community they're building social capital they are contributing to the society building its capital base that's what's not happening and the distinction you make in terms of what you call to affluenza others have identified the same but this culture of consumption it only works if the social capital exceeds the consumption.

So so well said I think there's an economic historical point to be made here about how social capital there's some broad panic in America as agrarian culture declined and had more technology substituted for labor and those are migration to the cities and it was a worry about whether or not social capital would be reproduced in cities but there's also just an observational point that's worth teasing out. My wife and I because I've done a lot of strategy consulting and crisis management over the last two decades we've lived in a lot of states we live back in my hometown now in Nebraska a farm town about an hour outside of Omaha we've lived there for the last eight years but before that we had talked through lots of different communities and so we've seen lots of different public schools lots of different Lutheran elementary schools lots of classical Christian schools and homeschool and Christian co-ops partly because we've been a part of a number of these different communities and institutions but also just because we've lived a lot of places and when we're there we're curious about what's happening with education and Christian education. It is amazing to see the difference between schools that have been around a little while and figured out how important culture is at their school versus those who've just gotten started and think that really all they have to do is get it right in terms of having the right curriculum in place and then everything will work. So much more of what happens is the sea of assumptions that kids are raised around about what the good, the true and the beautiful are and what you want your appetites and your heart and your loves to start inclining towards and clearly that's what a lot of neighborhood and laborliness and common grace are about is about whether or not there are those shared assumptions and I think we're going through a very interesting opportunity filled ultimately but frankly scary time in American life where we're going through so many transitions so rapidly that there's a hollowing out of local community and mediating institutions and I think that there's there's sort of a mass epidemic of loneliness in America right now but people don't have the right categories and hooks for how to think about the problems we face at this time.