The Great Divorce - David Brooks
There are two tribes in our society now - productive and non-productive. It's not fair. So the solution is to ...
Jamming a pack of Morlocks into a herd of Eloi in a DMV-like program of picking up garbage on the highway isn't going to teach anyone anything.
Except, maybe, how to skate, shirk, and avoid doing anything productive while looking efficient.
There are two tribes in our society now - productive and non-productive. It's not fair. So the solution is to ...
. . . but we need a National Service Program. We need a program that would force members of the upper tribe and the lower tribe to live together, if only for a few years. We need a program in which people from both tribes work together to spread out the values, practices and institutions that lead to achievement.If we could jam the tribes together, we’d have a better elite and a better mass.
Jamming a pack of Morlocks into a herd of Eloi in a DMV-like program of picking up garbage on the highway isn't going to teach anyone anything.
Except, maybe, how to skate, shirk, and avoid doing anything productive while looking efficient.
