Considering the crowd that I roll with, I'm sure that most of you have heard about the shopping cart test. The question about whether you can live in a civilization ends up being "can you return a shopping cart that you've been using?"
Well that is about whether you can live in a society, but I've been thinking a lot about the sort of people who can build a society.
Yesterday, we were all buckled up in the car leaving a place, and there were a couple carts blocking the exit. I parked the car, took the two carts, and brought them back to the entrance (where the carts were stored)
It still cost almost nothing to do, but it wasn't a problem I created, and considering I could just drive around the shopping carts I didn't have to do it. However, in spending 30 seconds helping out, in taking on that load, a lot of people day got a fraction of a percent better because they didn't have to steer around a bunch of random shopping carts.
Now meanwhile, there are people who metaphorically would take all the shopping carts and block off the roads and say that they're helping. And I still can't help but think that the people who would do something like that are going to leave to the end of Western Civilization assuming they get their way.
Well that is about whether you can live in a society, but I've been thinking a lot about the sort of people who can build a society.
Yesterday, we were all buckled up in the car leaving a place, and there were a couple carts blocking the exit. I parked the car, took the two carts, and brought them back to the entrance (where the carts were stored)
It still cost almost nothing to do, but it wasn't a problem I created, and considering I could just drive around the shopping carts I didn't have to do it. However, in spending 30 seconds helping out, in taking on that load, a lot of people day got a fraction of a percent better because they didn't have to steer around a bunch of random shopping carts.
Now meanwhile, there are people who metaphorically would take all the shopping carts and block off the roads and say that they're helping. And I still can't help but think that the people who would do something like that are going to leave to the end of Western Civilization assuming they get their way.
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