Re: Friedman's Folly

On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:50:50 +0530, "John Galt"
<whoisjohngalt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> 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 think you're on to something, actually. The only communities that seem
to 
>do things like this are those that either (1) have some sort of
s****ts-teams 
>for their kids, and (2) those that have some concern with crime, and form

>neighborhood watch groups.
>>
>> 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.
>
>I concur.
>
>JG


We should grab a beer some time . . .