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To: Sam who wrote (182290)	2/13/2012 11:39:56 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544137

AS an unsettled nation and free to develop along whatever lines we were prone to be swept by whatever "isms" worked for whatever region. Slavery, abolitionism, Mormonism, Nationalism ("Manifest Destiny") Capitalism, Socialism, Unionism, TVism and on and on. Now we have too much "Instantism". It's two easy too argue with people today thanks to Technology. Before we had to co-exist with our neighbors as they were mostly the people with whom we could have discourse with. Now for human interaction we just log on and hate who we want to hate because we don't have to get along with these strangers and then can log off feeling smug about ourselves. This characteristic has become transformed into a national finger pointing contest instead of thoughtful policy debate. I say one of the things we could do to erase this trend is demand national universal service of some type of all citizens that would have to be performed sometime between 18-26. To pay mostly economically disadvantaged to do our fighting and dirty work demeans our democratic ideals and divides us by class. We need to institutionalize those things that build character thru sacrifice.