tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post4301618813389163667..comments2024-02-09T18:16:45.614+00:00Comments on The Psy-Fi Blog: de Tocqueville: Trust in Self-Interesttimarrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-57744978016712342442011-07-02T17:07:05.967+01:002011-07-02T17:07:05.967+01:00My mother bowled. She had practically no involveme...My mother bowled. She had practically no involvement in my schooling. Nor did any parents of my friends have much involvement in their schooling. I had close involvement in my children's education, and my 'bowling' hours were spent with their schooling, extra-curricular and athletic activities. As a consequence, the parent group in their high school years was more like a cousins club. I knew the faculties of their schools on a first name basis. Putnam taps into the endless 'woe is us' market, but he misses. Interestingly, several grandfathers of my children's schoolmates would observe that their fathers, at the same age, would be playing golf, but here they were watching their grandchildren play sports. Thus, as Barron's has reported, rounds of golf have declined in the last two decades. NOT because we as a society are losing trust or community activities, but because we have better ways of expressing them than bowling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-72377782628020697292011-06-28T11:01:23.085+01:002011-06-28T11:01:23.085+01:00"This, more than anything else, would predict..."This, more than anything else, would predict slower growth in the years ahead, regardless of global economic trends and technology driven productivity gains."<br /><br />Now we just need a chartable metric...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com