https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ge/576802/
Interesting article trying to diagnose why we can't seem to act on the big challenges facing the nation.
What do you guys think?
Interesting article trying to diagnose why we can't seem to act on the big challenges facing the nation.
- Anti-statism combined with the assumption that the free market will take care of it.
- Anti-intellectualism
- The conceit that this Nation special and above what ails everyone else
- A system of government that disproportionately favors rural states
What do you guys think?
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg