Choosing to be a citizen
by Parker · 5 things on Twos
- https://seths.blog/2020/01/choosing-to-be-a-citizen/
- Citizens do the right thing because they can, even if the short-term cost is high.
- Citizens live by the rule of community: If everyone did what I’m about to do, would it lead to a useful outcome?
- Sometimes we call citizens heroes, which is a shame, because their actions should be commonplace, not rare. The myth of success based on short-term self-interest has been disproven again and again. It seems obvious that leaving things better than you found them is a powerful step forward, because you’ll probably be back this way again one day soon.
- Every successful community, every organization, every family has citizens. It’s the citizens who define the future, because their commitment to the long-term matters.