We can’t turn back the clock to a world where we all live in small villages and everybody knows everybody and the blacksmith. What we can do is take steps to re-create some of the constraints and benefits of the small groupings we evolved to live in. This may sound like an enormous undertaking, but it’s actually not. In fact, we could dial back a lot of the ME FIRST!/SCREW YOU! meanness permeating our society if we do just three things: • Stand up to the rude. • Expose the rude. • Treat strangers like neighbors.
