"This is me actually being kind to the city of Charlotte and to those communities who did vote to rescind their vote, and I am communicating to you right now that this will happen. This is not a joke. You will lose this, and you will have to pay back the money to the state. When you are 15 years into a project, and then on a political whim, overnight, rip it out, you are doing generational damage to your community. — North Carolina Sen. Vickie Sawyer, WCNC Charlotte"
Oh wow, this sounds legit abusive. The "This is me being kind" bit sounds like such a huge red flag, it's crazy. If you were dating somebody who said something like that, it's a sign to get the heck out of there right now.
it sounds like the guardian syndrome which jane jacobs describes in her book Systems of Survival.
AI summary of the book: Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival (1992) describes two contrasting moral syndromes, which she frames as the ethical frameworks underlying two fundamental ways of making a living: the guardian syndrome and the commercial syndrome (sometimes called the trading syndrome).
The Guardian Syndrome (associated with government, the military, religion, aristocracy)
Centers on the ethics of control, hierarchy, and territory
Key values include: shunning trade, exerting prowess, being obedient and disciplined, adhering to tradition, respecting hierarchy, being loyal, taking vengeance, deceiving for the sake of the task, treasuring honor, and being fatalistic
The Commercial Syndrome (associated with trade, business, science)
Centers on the ethics of exchange and voluntary cooperation
Key values include: shunning force, coming to voluntary agreements, being honest, collaborating easily with strangers and aliens, competing, respecting contracts, using initiative and enterprise, being open to inventiveness and novelty, being efficient, promoting comfort and convenience, dissenting for the sake of the task, and being optimistic
Jacobs's core argument is that these two syndromes are coherent, self-consistent moral systems, each suited to a different kind of work — guardians protect and control territory, traders create and exchange goods — but they are fundamentally incompatible. Problems arise, she argues, when the values of one syndrome are applied to activities governed by the other (what she calls "monstrous hybrids") — for example, when commercial values infect government (corruption, bribery) or when guardian values infect commerce (price-fixing, cartels, collusion with the state).
The book is structured as a Platonic-style dialogue among a group of friends debating these ideas, which was somewhat unusual for a work of social/economic theory.
"This is me actually being kind to the city of Charlotte and to those communities who did vote to rescind their vote, and I am communicating to you right now that this will happen. This is not a joke. You will lose this, and you will have to pay back the money to the state. When you are 15 years into a project, and then on a political whim, overnight, rip it out, you are doing generational damage to your community. — North Carolina Sen. Vickie Sawyer, WCNC Charlotte"
Oh wow, this sounds legit abusive. The "This is me being kind" bit sounds like such a huge red flag, it's crazy. If you were dating somebody who said something like that, it's a sign to get the heck out of there right now.
Totally whack! Sounds sociopathic.
it sounds like the guardian syndrome which jane jacobs describes in her book Systems of Survival.
AI summary of the book: Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival (1992) describes two contrasting moral syndromes, which she frames as the ethical frameworks underlying two fundamental ways of making a living: the guardian syndrome and the commercial syndrome (sometimes called the trading syndrome).
The Guardian Syndrome (associated with government, the military, religion, aristocracy)
Centers on the ethics of control, hierarchy, and territory
Key values include: shunning trade, exerting prowess, being obedient and disciplined, adhering to tradition, respecting hierarchy, being loyal, taking vengeance, deceiving for the sake of the task, treasuring honor, and being fatalistic
The Commercial Syndrome (associated with trade, business, science)
Centers on the ethics of exchange and voluntary cooperation
Key values include: shunning force, coming to voluntary agreements, being honest, collaborating easily with strangers and aliens, competing, respecting contracts, using initiative and enterprise, being open to inventiveness and novelty, being efficient, promoting comfort and convenience, dissenting for the sake of the task, and being optimistic
Jacobs's core argument is that these two syndromes are coherent, self-consistent moral systems, each suited to a different kind of work — guardians protect and control territory, traders create and exchange goods — but they are fundamentally incompatible. Problems arise, she argues, when the values of one syndrome are applied to activities governed by the other (what she calls "monstrous hybrids") — for example, when commercial values infect government (corruption, bribery) or when guardian values infect commerce (price-fixing, cartels, collusion with the state).
The book is structured as a Platonic-style dialogue among a group of friends debating these ideas, which was somewhat unusual for a work of social/economic theory.