Comment by jeffreygoesto

4 days ago

I want to live in a community where everyone cares.

Trust me: You don't. You'd go insane.

See for example everyone who has to live with an HOA.

  • Classically underspecified, you are right. The care has to be about others and respecting them, not about oneself. Like in a good partnership. Care about giving, not taking.

    But as the article frustratedly states, it usually goes the other way. Like Jethro Tull progressing into desillusion from

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luDfuZkeqKU

    to

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SGq7jMdSU

    This planet is such a beautiful marble and all we do is trample it with our feet. Guys, make a random somebody smile today, will ya?

  • Is that what caring about people in your community looks like? Or some kind of property value paranoia and sense of control.

Reading the original article I reflected: "I can totally see how this can happen, but for some reason it doesn't happen where I live"

I moved to Switzerland 9y ago. People care. I believe this is due to high trust society which evolved not that long ago from small, poor, tightly woven communities.