Re: Friedman's Folly

On Sat, 17 May 2008 00:33:29 +0530, "John Galt"
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>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:39:06 +0530, "John Galt"
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>>>That said, I bemoan the loss of the front-****ch patio style of builidng
>>>homes. Why don't people (of any income bracket) want those anymore?
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>> Now we cacoon. Our homes are self sufficient little feifdoms. All our
>> entertainment is ****pped in via cable and net flicks.
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>Sad.


I've come to believe building community is the most im****tant thing we
can do to save the better things and improve things. I hold an open
house every month for my neighbors and friends just so we stay in
touch and get to know each other. New people are almost forcefully
dragged to the event. Every organization I belong to I push beer or
coffee or potluck get togehters after the business is concluded so our
relation****ps are about more than the "work". 

I was a rugged individualist for 45 years, making it on my own. I'm
sad it took me so long to find that people and community are where the
joy is. But at least I found out.

We have political pollsters working at finding wedge issues to divide
us, interest groups looking for ways to inflame our biases, and
advertisers working on making us feel superior or inferior to others
(depending on their product). That's billions being spent to make us
fraction and faction. This is the real problem in America I think.
(It's also why Obama's message is working. - But that's a different
story.)