Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱 (@josephsimons@mstdn.ca)

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#JaredWesley: "Social norms have shifted ... in favour of collective #responsibility over individual #autonomy. #DEI policies, environmental #regulations, and #publichealth measures have introduced new expectations in workplaces, schools, and elsewhere. Vocal minorities have resisted...

"The Wild West notion that one should be free to speak and act without external constraints is now met with counterarguments about the responsibilities that come with that #freedom."

https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/western-alienation-20?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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#JaredWesley: "In this sense, the #West’s greatest challenge may not be economic or cultural decline, but the fact that some people were conditioned to believe in both limitless #opportunity and #superiority. The #mythology of the West promised a permanent #frontier. But frontiers, by definition, do not last forever. Like other regions, the reality of the modern West is now one of boundaries—economic, cultural, and political."

https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/western-alienation-20?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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