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The common good.
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Patrick Skinner
@SkinnerPm
The childish vaccine ‘outrage’ is the inevitable result of several generations in which only handfuls of Americans were asked to do anything at all for the common good. Being a good neighbor requires doing good for your neighbors. Like muscle memory, you have to do something.
Meanwhile everyone is told community is bad & screw them drive faster in your bigger cars & act like no one matters but you in that and every moment. We are the inevitable result of a consumer-is-always-right society. Who freak when asked to get a vaccine for ‘public health’
For literally millions and millions of Americans, the vaccine campaign is the first time they’ve been asked to consider the common good. And they can’t. Or won’t.
11:02 AM · Sep 18, 2021
Patrick Skinner
@SkinnerPm
The childish vaccine ‘outrage’ is the inevitable result of several generations in which only handfuls of Americans were asked to do anything at all for the common good. Being a good neighbor requires doing good for your neighbors. Like muscle memory, you have to do something.
Meanwhile everyone is told community is bad & screw them drive faster in your bigger cars & act like no one matters but you in that and every moment. We are the inevitable result of a consumer-is-always-right society. Who freak when asked to get a vaccine for ‘public health’
For literally millions and millions of Americans, the vaccine campaign is the first time they’ve been asked to consider the common good. And they can’t. Or won’t.
11:02 AM · Sep 18, 2021
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