- Loneliness is pervasive and a key reason to “other”
- We need to get reconnected
- Isolation turns something dangerous into something deadly
- Loneliness drives obesity and other chronic diseases
- Much of depression is simply a lack of community
- The phrase “our kids” used to mean “the community” but now it is usually limited to immediate relatives
- Having a shoulder on the road gives more margin for correction
- “How we ought to live” is often a moral question
- In the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s we liberalized our laws at the push of the affluent
- The affluent then realized this not a recipe for success and have become more conservative in living
- ATMs scared tellers thinking there would be no need for humans tellers; instead, they boosted the number of tellers because branches became cheaper to run
- We are meant to be “for” things, in absence of that we will be “against” things in order to keep a community
- News shifts to fit the delivery mechanism (‘You can’t use a smoke signal to share philosophy’)
- Retired people watch an average of 50 hours of TV a week
- “Nut picking” is searching for a “nut job” who can be broadly applied to a stereotype
- Naming the enemy limits what the they can do in our minds
- We set the agenda for the news outlets
- Part of public service is to head home once you are done
- “Money is power stored in the bank.”
- “Limited government” is not the same as “small government”
- Limited in that the government should be constrained to enable citizen thought
- Use technology when it advance specific ends
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