[MD] Where have all the values gone?

[Erin]

Arlo,
   
   
  Arlo: Your response to my post indicates a belief that we must be either 
"all public" or "all private". 
       
  Erin:  NO and I don't see how you got that at all
   
  Arlo: Certainly there were people back then who 
valued their privacy, and meditated, just as there are people today who 
value public-space engagement. The question is, on a societal level, why 
have we not only flipped on our values, but we demand dichotomy in the 
dialogue?

  Erin:  I think some dichotomies are useful for understanding the world...e.g. more individualistic societies vs. more collectivistic societies.  
  Has  our society flipped our values...I don't think I really agree with that.
  Also in my post I was looking at it from another angle...some indviduals are one way.  Certainly we "individualistic/private emphasis" individuals living in collectivistic societies and "collectivistic/social emphasis" individuals in individualistic societies.    
   
  ARLO:  The "moral pilgrims" who engaged publicly were not exclusively "public". There was a private sphere of engagement in their lives too. What we are seeing is the slow eroding of public engagement through a language that has vilified any notion of "public" or "community" into forms of pure evil. 
   
  ERIN:  I'm going to stop because you offer this advice about not approaching things as pure this/all that but the problem is that I wasnt'    I was saying I think due to individual differences an individual may put an emphasis on one or the other.   I feel like I was trying to have a conversation but ended up hearing a sermon to an imaginary audience.  I don't know what else to say other than if you would like to actually talk to me instead of them great.
  Otherwise nothing really else to say...I am not willing play along and represent what nobody is arguing.


		
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