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the state of civilization can be seen by cart returns. it's not looking good.

why is it so hard for some people to put carts back in the corral?
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nobody 1y ago

I have been thinking about this a ton in the last few days since I saw this. I've been thinking about how before we became so interconnected people cared so much more about their local communities. You couldn't just go online and find people to talk to. So you had to be a good steward of your local community or risk being ostricized or exiled. You had to produce value for your community to have any status.

And the shopping cart phenomonon just so clearly puts that on display. Just wanted to let you know that you really planted something in this Internet stranger and I appreciate you for it.

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karo 1y ago

you're welcome!

it's important to continue to be stewards in our local, physical community. Even when others are not putting their carts back, we still put our carts back because it shows that we care.

Local community these days look different though. For example, it might be facilitated through online group. In the local Buy Nothing Facebook group recently, someone's aunt suffered a stroke and to prep her bedroom to come home for recovery, her niece reached out to see if anyone wanted to trade her aunt's queen size bed for a twin bed so that her aunt could have more space for mobility equipment. And it happened. There's a yard playset that's been passed around from family to family as kids grow tired of them.