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The Norwegian Case for Mediocracy

https://www.ft.com/content/0fe0455d-8633-4e1a-ab8f-f8cd94d60035

by bookofjoe • 3 days ago

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bookofjoe• 3 days ago

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fragmede• 3 days ago

The point is that fellow citizens can look each other in the eye. Writing during the Great Depression, the banker-turned-writer James Truslow Adams coined the term the “American Dream” to describe a “better, richer, and happier life” for all Americans. He wrote of “the way that everyone of every sort looks you right in the eye, without a thought of inequality”. Adams observed that Americans shared a kind of mutual dignity.

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