On 1/14/14 6:39 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
No, I'm proposing a *social* change, not a governmental or political one.
[..]
Think of a recursive hierarchy of potlatches...
" Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and
citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity
and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's
imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats
or oligarchs, as opposed to being citizens." John Ralston Saul
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