The Norwegian Case for Mediocracy
bookofjoe
15 points
2 comments
July 19, 2026
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bookofjoe
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fragmede
> The point is that fellow citizens can look each other in the eye. Writing during the Great Depression, the banker-turned-writer James Truslow Adams coined the term the “American Dream” to describe a “better, richer, and happier life” for all Americans. He wrote of “the way that everyone of every sort looks you right in the eye, without a thought of inequality”. Adams observed that Americans shared a kind of mutual dignity. Damn.