Civic America: A Dying Tradition? As the world prepares to enter the new millennium, America seems to have discarded much of the traditional civic mindedness that was omnipresent merely a half-century ago. The symptoms of this disease are becoming more apparent with each passing year, and investigators can only speculate what the probable causes are. However, the sure consequence of them if left alone is the inevitable death of the nation as Americans know it. …showed first 75 words of 1509 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1509 total…altogether. “Some of the same freedom-friendly technologies…may indeed be undermining our connections with one another and with our communities. This perspective invites us not merely to consider how technology is privatizing our lives--if, as it seems to me, it is--but to ask whether we like the result, and if not, what we might do about it. Those are questions we should, of course, be asking together, not alone.” (SDCA-How might TV destroy social capital?)