I am a little confused about the Doha example are you saying that they are a net American taxpayer? Or that the American response to the bombing has been weak? Or that Europe’s response has been weak?
As usual, I agree and find insightful your perspective, but as usual, I must point out that it has its limits.
"There existed between roughly 1991 and perhaps 2019 a set of implicit guarantees that functioned less like law and more like physical properties of modern space."
Los Angeles riots in 1992. September 11. Occupy Wall Street 2011.
You are not wrong about our need to invest in the vision that we shared when we adopted our Constitution. You are not wrong that we have underinvested in its maintenance and are now witnessing the consequences.
But I must insist that the experience from the inside is different from every citizen, and that we must respect those differences by maintaining the privacy and protected spaces necessary for divergent beliefs and opinions. As the founders understood from lived experience, total synchronization of belief would be its own kind of slavery.
Do you not consider the gun violence in schools, which did not start 18 months ago, to fall into this trend? Newtown, CT, at minimum may not be the Hamptons, but I imagine many families there have the exit option.
I think you’re broadly right here, I am curious to hear why 18 months are the indicator, rather than 20-odd years.
In your schema, where do you place the state killings of the two citizens in Minneapolis?
I am a little confused about the Doha example are you saying that they are a net American taxpayer? Or that the American response to the bombing has been weak? Or that Europe’s response has been weak?
As usual, I agree and find insightful your perspective, but as usual, I must point out that it has its limits.
"There existed between roughly 1991 and perhaps 2019 a set of implicit guarantees that functioned less like law and more like physical properties of modern space."
Los Angeles riots in 1992. September 11. Occupy Wall Street 2011.
You are not wrong about our need to invest in the vision that we shared when we adopted our Constitution. You are not wrong that we have underinvested in its maintenance and are now witnessing the consequences.
But I must insist that the experience from the inside is different from every citizen, and that we must respect those differences by maintaining the privacy and protected spaces necessary for divergent beliefs and opinions. As the founders understood from lived experience, total synchronization of belief would be its own kind of slavery.
Well written.
Do you not consider the gun violence in schools, which did not start 18 months ago, to fall into this trend? Newtown, CT, at minimum may not be the Hamptons, but I imagine many families there have the exit option.
I think you’re broadly right here, I am curious to hear why 18 months are the indicator, rather than 20-odd years.