I agree with everything herein. But, I also want to track back even further. The U.S. is not a community oriented country. We don't have villages per se. We are mostly a "it's all about the individual and good luck with that mindset". So, community support mechanics are not really available on a general level. Our neighborhoods are not d…
I agree with everything herein. But, I also want to track back even further. The U.S. is not a community oriented country. We don't have villages per se. We are mostly a "it's all about the individual and good luck with that mindset". So, community support mechanics are not really available on a general level. Our neighborhoods are not designed for communities. They are designed for fences. The colonialist brought this with them from Europe. They considered the tribal people to be "savages". The tribal people had the most advanced structure of community development in the world. However, you don't model your "civilized" opinions on "savages". Today we have the results of this original construct. The "lost and lonely" boys are searching for someone or some group to aim their anger and frustrations upon. So, we have racism. So, we have income inequality. So, we have fascism. The individual "lost and lonely" boys who have aligned their social dysfunctional social skills to technology have amassed fortunes unimaginable in years past. Now, like the characters in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" they are seeking to restructure a collective social structure that will respect and accept them. Unfortunately, they have not addressed the internal character fracture that they have suffered from this isolation and thus, they are not able to deliver "paradise". Any conservative grouping, of any nature, is usually formatted around money or fundamental religion. Neither of these addresses this internal character fracture...that is really not anyone's individual fault.
The Maga Lost Boys are stuck in a Lord of the Flies reality tv show or their battered women and patsy dads are circulating in a Jerry Springer loop.
A really fundamental internal character fracture comes direct from western theology and philosophy that demonized the female, and proclaimed thar domination over Nature (as female) was the birthright of pricks from the dawn of time. As we have seen with our new cadre of women haters and abusers who are so happy now they can be sleep walkers, cuss, and call people bad names, and act like they are 10 yrs old and Woke Mommy can't tell them to stuff it.
A related crack in head of character fracture is the xenophobic nature of isolation. England being an island there were only white people there. Geography and fear of invaders who didn't look like themselves. Only 25% of the population in the US is of British descent, but the system and the ideas are of British origin.
As to history we have a deep backbone of democracy for a young country. Being isolated on the edge of the wilderness, the early inland colonial villages of Concord and Sudbury (1635-1639) Massachusetts were the first towns to institute the Town Meeting form of government. Each town ran as its own Republic with people debating and compromising and voting. Our democratic system was born here. We still have our town meeting form of governance so have a built-in community system even though many of our villages are now bedroom commuter villes for the city. I find it difficult to imagine that New Englanders whose heritage is the Revolutionary war in a very personal way are going to give up that traditional form of Independence without a battle.
I agree with everything herein. But, I also want to track back even further. The U.S. is not a community oriented country. We don't have villages per se. We are mostly a "it's all about the individual and good luck with that mindset". So, community support mechanics are not really available on a general level. Our neighborhoods are not designed for communities. They are designed for fences. The colonialist brought this with them from Europe. They considered the tribal people to be "savages". The tribal people had the most advanced structure of community development in the world. However, you don't model your "civilized" opinions on "savages". Today we have the results of this original construct. The "lost and lonely" boys are searching for someone or some group to aim their anger and frustrations upon. So, we have racism. So, we have income inequality. So, we have fascism. The individual "lost and lonely" boys who have aligned their social dysfunctional social skills to technology have amassed fortunes unimaginable in years past. Now, like the characters in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" they are seeking to restructure a collective social structure that will respect and accept them. Unfortunately, they have not addressed the internal character fracture that they have suffered from this isolation and thus, they are not able to deliver "paradise". Any conservative grouping, of any nature, is usually formatted around money or fundamental religion. Neither of these addresses this internal character fracture...that is really not anyone's individual fault.
The Maga Lost Boys are stuck in a Lord of the Flies reality tv show or their battered women and patsy dads are circulating in a Jerry Springer loop.
A really fundamental internal character fracture comes direct from western theology and philosophy that demonized the female, and proclaimed thar domination over Nature (as female) was the birthright of pricks from the dawn of time. As we have seen with our new cadre of women haters and abusers who are so happy now they can be sleep walkers, cuss, and call people bad names, and act like they are 10 yrs old and Woke Mommy can't tell them to stuff it.
A related crack in head of character fracture is the xenophobic nature of isolation. England being an island there were only white people there. Geography and fear of invaders who didn't look like themselves. Only 25% of the population in the US is of British descent, but the system and the ideas are of British origin.
As to history we have a deep backbone of democracy for a young country. Being isolated on the edge of the wilderness, the early inland colonial villages of Concord and Sudbury (1635-1639) Massachusetts were the first towns to institute the Town Meeting form of government. Each town ran as its own Republic with people debating and compromising and voting. Our democratic system was born here. We still have our town meeting form of governance so have a built-in community system even though many of our villages are now bedroom commuter villes for the city. I find it difficult to imagine that New Englanders whose heritage is the Revolutionary war in a very personal way are going to give up that traditional form of Independence without a battle.