02-13-2022, 10:22 AM
(02-12-2022, 04:10 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: Since when does social cohesion have to come from top-down mandates? I'd argue that, if anything, our sense of community was stronger when our institutions were a little more lean. People form bonds by sharing common experiences, actually doing things together, not having bureaucratic structures enforce more rules.
History tells us that Americans are not typically amenable to the same cohesive structures found in most other advance societies. The rare occasion when we coalesce requires a trauma of some kind that forces the issue: the ACW, WWII and the Great Depression, TBD this time.
It isn't top-down so much as universal ... or nearly so.
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