Americans Revolt Billions of Times a Day

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2012/07/08/july-4th-question-part-iii-americans-revolt-billions-of-times-a-day/

The United States calls itself a Republic, "the public thing", but I'm given to believe that in the 21st century, the public thing no longer exists. When a politician speaks of community or society he's booed down as a socialist: we're seemingly a nation of self-obsessed individuals, content with amusing ourselves and utterly oblivious to the greater world that exists outside of our homes, outside the state, and outside the present moment of time. Such a thought is discouraging, and yet I resist it by pretending the Public Thing still exists, by contributing daily as I can to the bank of the common good which may have failed long ago.