cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
It took a while for me to see, because I grew up immersed in it, but I've been confused by the US myth of ourselves that we live in a culture that values democracy when most of our day-to-day activities involve interacting with top-down, authoritarian institutions. When the majority of us who work for a living have to watch what we say or lose our livelihood... Anyway, some leads for interesting recent activity: