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Thanks. I still think civilization without society works pretty well as a (necessarily lossy) compression. The US as a civilization without a sense of communita

Thanks. I still think civilization without society works pretty well as a (necessarily lossy) compression. The US as a civilization without a sense of communitarian civics. The presence of such in rare cases (e.g. Belmont) puts its broader absence into sharper relief.

alephnerd 2y ago
> The presence of such in rare cases (e.g. Belmont) I thought it's fairly common to live in a town with a town hall meetings or PTA meetings? Or visit city hall or met your city council in elementary school? It's the norm in most suburban towns (use the local PTA meeting as the Town Meeting instead depending on the suburb). If you live within a big city, then it's a different story of course (city government is absolutely not community driven), but only 12% of Americans live in Urban areas/cities [0] and 69% live in suburbs. [0] - https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cusrancvs.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cusrancvs.pdf