I have found most folks around here to be polite and have pretty good manners, when I ride the CATA bus many people thank the bus driver when departing. In Boston not so much.
On to a quit different subject, I have noticed a number of trees this season that have been cut by animals along the Red Cedar. I have brought this up before, but it looks like a beaver's cut. I guess it could be muskrats, but these are fairly large trees. MSU has put up protective fences around many trees, so I guess there are more of whatever critters are cutting the trees and bark. Has anyone ever heard of a beaver dam in the Red Cedar?
Drug laws and all the issues surrounding are far, far more nuanced than "it's racism" and "Nixon/Republicans did it". The racist drug user tropes were just propaganda tools, not the ideological foundation of the policy, it's tough to say how large of a role they played in building support. I know how things are portrayed by academics and certain partisan people/groups. I know how the issue is presented in history classes and the media. Democrats have done nothing meaningful to counter the drug war, nor offered any sensible alternatives (other than isolated suppor the ridiculous concept of "decriminalization" for some things). Federal drug prohibition has been and still is an issue with wide bipartisan support, playing the partisan blame-game doesn't work here. We'll just have to agree to disagree, I don't really feel like writing an essay, I'd just repeat my encouragement to step outside the partisan framework.
I am unfamiliar with the author Arnade, I certainly agree with the assertion about people living in an urban environment requiring a high degree of trust in order for the system to be able to function. China's authoritarian system probably isn't a great example because everything is imposed from the top down making the whole system incredibly fragile, before even considering that the image portrayed internally and to the outside world is an at least partially fabricated one. Japan is unique in the world and somewhere we could learn from but they are an incredibly homogeneous society in just about every way, almost opposite of the US, so I don't know how directly one could apply lessons.
Regarding the Red Cedar tree cutting: I'd wager that the trees that appear to have been cut down by beavers have, in fact, been cut down by beavers. I've not seen one but beavers are around
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On to a quit different subject, I have noticed a number of trees this season that have been cut by animals along the Red Cedar. I have brought this up before, but it looks like a beaver's cut. I guess it could be muskrats, but these are fairly large trees. MSU has put up protective fences around many trees, so I guess there are more of whatever critters are cutting the trees and bark. Has anyone ever heard of a beaver dam in the Red Cedar?
I am unfamiliar with the author Arnade, I certainly agree with the assertion about people living in an urban environment requiring a high degree of trust in order for the system to be able to function. China's authoritarian system probably isn't a great example because everything is imposed from the top down making the whole system incredibly fragile, before even considering that the image portrayed internally and to the outside world is an at least partially fabricated one. Japan is unique in the world and somewhere we could learn from but they are an incredibly homogeneous society in just about every way, almost opposite of the US, so I don't know how directly one could apply lessons.
Regarding the Red Cedar tree cutting: I'd wager that the trees that appear to have been cut down by beavers have, in fact, been cut down by beavers. I've not seen one but beavers are around