11/ A strong case could be made that big, dense, urban cores are going to remain economic (and increasingly, climate-response) engines. Reverse migration driven by big-city problems actually delay the return of economic vitality and climate sustainability.
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22/ And certainly, as it always has in history, Little Sky country will serve as the source of Big Sky dreamers (like Robert Noyce from Iowa to SV), who have always left the "heartland" to migrate to places where Big Sky thinking is appreciated, enabled, and rewarded.
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23/ But I think it is dangerous to let this instinct of kindness towards small dreams lead us towards overstating the importance or history-shaping potential of that cultural force. America has simply never worked that way. It's just a comforting myth for a lot of Americans.
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24/ Obviously, I haven't read Fallows' book since it isn't out yet, and I'm totally behind the attempt to provide a healing, positive narrative of local agency and empowerment to a forgotten/ignored demographic.
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25/ But bottomline: America isn't Little Sky country. 100,000 locally flourishing little Thornton Wilder tales don't add up to a new kind of American mass flourishing. The problem is with Big Sky country, and the solution needs to be found there.
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How do you think the self-focused little guy can break out of his paradigm (or how can another break him out)? My first thought is to reduce individuality as a function of emotion/desire (e.g. "I feel therefore I am [me]")
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Move to a big city, for as long as you can afford it. The mind-expansion is permanent even if you don't stay there permanently.
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