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a citizen conceives of themselves as part of a community whose stewardship is their partial responsibility. they think of themselves as definitionally a small part of a larger whole.
a customer, otoh, sees themselves as an individual in competition with everyone else. for them, there is no "we."
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I don't blame them. I keep a close watch on these things. Even I overestimate what people know. At the last election I did a good job of calling it close. I screwed up at the end when it seemed like certain things broke through. They didn't.
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The fact that this man is almost certainly going to win is depressing.
He’s not the Mayor NYC needs, but, as someone from Upstate, maybe he is the Mayor NYC deserves.
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Thoughts are with my Jewish friends. I know how scary things must feel right now.
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i really think party ought to get a personnel replacement in 2026 because so many people don’t have that dawg in them. but its also often excessive
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I went to LA thinking “the public transport can’t be that bad” and then I spent seven hours a day on a bus and concluded that that city is a monument to all the sins of American urban planning
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Currently Americans are too individualistic (and the American sense of common community is far too broken) for any such institution to be achievable (let alone popular)
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This is basically what the CCC did, arguably. But then again the CCC only worked at all was the Great Depression. I think outside of some sort of massive catastrophe (though we are moving towards such a point) it would be hard to convince Americans of the positive good of such a program.
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We have inherited all the successes of the Industrial Revolution, along with all its sins. But the sins are not worth throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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There are ways we can learn from indigenous/non western ways of living, I think. But our lives were not better in an era where many children died before age 2.