Most people still held civic community spirit despite decades of atomizing capitalism

Evidence

None of this should have come as a shock. What is surprising, and frankly heartening, is that, after decades of frontal attacks on the idea that we live in a society, a critical mass of us had held on to enough of a civic and community spirit that we went along with these new rules for the better part of two years, and, moreover, that so many of us rejoiced at the sudden apparition of a social state. Yes, when our governments abandoned their Covid policies, we lapsed back to the crisis called “normal”—but for a time, we glimpsed another world, another kind of collective flip. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 771

Categorization

• SHARE: The counternarrative to ‘no one trusts institutions anymore’ — a group held community despite relentless attacks on the social idea.
• XREF: connects to: People still sustain cultural commons daily despite hyper-consumer society — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 133; Contradictory local crosscurrents still reveal shared national trends in civic life. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 68