Readers responded to my NextStage CRO Joseph Carrabis Interviewed on "The First Wireless Presidency" post via phone, Skype and email. I want to thank you all who took the time and effort to do so. There is no one response that stands out. There were the flurry of jokes from friends along the lines of "Yes, you are handsome!" and the less jokey (at least I hope they were less jokey) "I'm so proud of you!"
One fellow called to let me know how moved he was by my addendum. Thank you.
And then there was the curious case of the fellow who emailed that prejudice, bigotry and banning didn't exist -- at least not in the south -- because he had seen interracial couples walking down the street of his hometown (south central Atlantic state) without anybody commenting or troubling them at all.
And I really don't know how to respond to that. The fellow offered that perhaps bigotry, racism and prejudice persisted longer in the north than it did in the south and that's why (in 1974) my African-American friend was banned from where I worked. This could be true, I don't know. I do know that a few days before this last Presidential election some folks in NH still knew -- knew! -- then candidate Obama was a Muslim (see The Neighborhood Bonfire as a Demonstration of Political Anxieties, etc).
Whatever else you may think, we are a free society. If nothing else, we are a freeer society than we were at this time in 2008. Or 1974.
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At some point in the not too distant past, everything was overvalued. Stocks, houses, etc. Since that time, the bubble burst, and then some. I think many commodities have become undervalued as everyone waits for someone else to identify the value floor for these items.
My long-winded way of saying, while it may be a 'free-er' society than 2008, I think calling it free may be undervaluing it just a tad too much. I'd settle for overextended, discounted society.
Posted by: Windkiller | February 24, 2009 11:44 AM | Permalink to Comment