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  • Resonosity@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldEarly bird
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    11 months ago

    There are bus services in rural US where companies pick up people who’ve signed up. It’s not even a market problem at this point.

    People are just NIMBYs and averse to change, or at least the ones who show up to the local town council.














  • What was the voting age at the time of that election in Gaza? I've heard that the average age of Palestinians is 18, although that might only be a recent statistic. If the voting age of that population is so young, you might imagine the ignorance that population would have towards issues, or the potential that population might have for manipulation.

    Did that 2007 election take place like US ones, where only like 2/3rds of people even vote at all?

    Questions like this really make you wonder if it was even possible for the election results that put Hamas into power to be representative of the general population.

    So, all of this is to say that I agree with you.



  • The solution could be more rooted in philosophy too, but it's been a long time, at least since the time of the Greeks or Romans, since we've had Schools dedicated to the deliberation of meta/physics, ethics, epistemology, etc.

    And I'm not talking about modern education here, the education that's meant to bring up the youth and develop them into functioning adults. The Greek/Roman Schools to me seemed like places of conversation, debate, etc. that anyone could join (I know that philosophy was mostly restricted to the aristocracy in ancient times, but that would be the goal today).

    Maybe the answer is modern schools today, but with an effort to host local communities for thought discourse. Maybe it would look like wrapping together TED Talks with the minds of debates you see in New York that are like full blown events.

    And maybe universities do deliver this kind of activity for their community that I nor you have access to because they're not near us. Dunno.