
… buddy! Let’s do an active shooter drill! Let’s go to Walmart, and buy you a bulletproof backpack.” The rest of the world thinks this is literally i-n-s-a-n-e. Or that people have to crowdfund insulin in America — in the rest of the world, rich or poor, insul…
…, with no chance for people to really earn a decent middle-class living anymore — it also means that the formative unifying idea that simply by playing by the rules, you’ll prosper, that if you work hard enough, you’ll move up — that idea has shattered like glass. But that idea was the one thing holding everything — everything, from institutions to norms to values, to cities, towns, communities, states, the whole social contract upon which such a country was founded — together.
…ill you with love and pride, even when it is hard, and the other will fill you with shame and fear. No one should use shame or fear to try to get you to change. When they do this they are not asking for change, they are asking for control.