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> Instead of lionizing celebrities, money, infamy, or hyper individualism, maybe it would be worth respecting wisdom, mastery, expertise, monetary-agonistic acc
by nineplay 5y ago
> Instead of lionizing celebrities, money, infamy, or hyper individualism, maybe it would be worth respecting wisdom, mastery, expertise, monetary-agonistic accomplishment, and insightfulness.
I wonder if that's ever happened in the history of humanity. I have my doubts.
- airhead969 5y agoI also wonder, but perhaps some of these may approximate more "utopianish" collective community integration: - Genuine hippie communes (Do kibbutzes count?) - Amish - Indigenous tribes where elders are respected - Rural/suburban Minnesotans because they tend towards hardy dealing with life and climate struggles and unimpressed by immodesty - In the old days (80's/90's), my grandparents knew most of their neighbors, grocery store cashiers, butcher, hair stylist, and a number of other people well. What ever happened to that? I don't even know any of the neighbors in my apartment complex despite introducing myself, and one (Louis Vuitton-strutting cliché) woman neighbor next door won't even acknowledge my presence with pleasantries in passing. WTH.