Theft at the Public Till
heralds an age in which we seem to have quit trying. We create parallel, middle-class suburban cities growing on the fringes of old centers aban- doned to the poor and enclaved cities for the rich. Throughout America gov- ernment has largely ceased its historic role as the integrator of communities in favor of managing and enforcing distinction. Each individual, each group, seems out for its own and seeks to be protected from the others. There is no common goal to be strived for and no shared understanding of the common good - but instead 250 million plus separate understandings, 250 million plus sets of goals, 250 million plus isolated islands. The ensuing complexity leads directly to part of the theft. For in the competition to only better ourselves -- without regard to “them” - we have created the very system that rips us off.
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