3 ms·
At root is that an individualist culture exposes itself as seriously broken in the public space. There can be no public good if the individual always comes firs
by thinkingemote 4y ago
At root is that an individualist culture exposes itself as seriously broken in the public space. There can be no public good if the individual always comes first.
Paid high tech street toilets are a logical conclusion of a culture with little shared public good. The human rights and priority of the individual is respected and maintained.
Public toilets will go away as the public goes away.
- danielfoster 4y agoI’ve always wondered why American bathrooms are a wreck relative to Japanese bathrooms. I think individualism is a reasonable explanation.
- bart_spoon 4y agoI’ve lived in some places that emphasize the collective over the individual, and I’ve come to the same conclusion. I have little hope that America improves at all in any of these dimensions. Individualism is too engrained.