Opinion | How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society
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Opinion | How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society
At every level of responsibility, Americans have lost the authority to do what they think is sensible.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
Alienation has become a plague: Many Americans no longer believe in America. That’s largely because, I argue here, they no longer have the freedom to take responsibility in their daily choices. Persistent failures feed the frustration and seed a culture of distrust. Instead of focusing on how to make things work, Americans obsess about what might g
... See morePhilip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. Morality is the product of a civilization, but the elites know little of these t
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Collectively, they lack the gravity necessary to reestablish a sense of responsibility for the people and places around us.
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Sarah Wong added
The modern internet overwhelms us, disheartens us, and distracts us from what matters most. But most alarming of all, it erodes our ability to trust—in others, in ourselves, in institutions, in humanity, and in the future. The scary thing about losing trust is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When we suspect the worst, it creates a downw... See more
rob hardy • The more beautiful internet our hearts know is possible
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Americans didn’t abandon our belief in individual responsibility. It was taken away from us by a post 1960s legal framework that, with the best of intentions, made people squirm through the eye of a legal needle before taking responsibility.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Anna B added
Many Americans today worry that our nation is losing its national identity. Yet the core of that identity is not the whiteness of our skin or our religion or our ethnicity.
It is the ideals we share, the good we hold in common. Robert Reich, 10/20/23 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-final-word-about-the-common-good
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