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Remove the Smart Screens
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Peak Suburbia?
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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
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Sing a Round
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The Confusion of the American: Fighting for the Enemy
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What is an American?
Read ☛: What is an American?I have been asking what various people thought it meant to be an American, or what being an American meant to them. This is the result.
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Children learn to form letters, phrase sentences, then to write paragraphs, then essays. In the same way, we have watched our community learn to say hello, to small talk, then to gather and bounce around ideas. But it mustn’t end there.
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The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as ‘protectionism’ — and that is exactly what it is. It is a protectionism that is just and sound, because it protects local producers and is the best assurance of adequate supplies to local consumers. And the idea that local needs should be met first and only surpluses exported does not imply any prejudice against charity toward people in other places or trade with them. The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. And the principle of subsistence is in fact the best guarantee of giveable or marketable surpluses. This kind of protection is not ‘isolationism.”
― Wendell Berry