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 ...
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.
