Most people do value these things, they just don’t have the political power to enact them.
The people who do have that level of power see it as a move that wouldn’t help them, and would hinder their political goals in other areas (they don’t have an infinite budget, and they have people to pay or whom they owe favours).
…and those who have this sort of money to burn, only got that money by being tight fisted and ruthless, so lost the mental agility and empathy to do this sort of thing.
But yes, the majority of poor, tired, politically disempowered people do support this sort of thing… Then a swath of them think “but I could never go to such a place, too many wheelchairs and gross children” and another group thinks “Don’t we have better things to spend money on,? Local parks, drunk driving issues, business relief”… So it becomes a question of a whole hierarchy of values.
Different values win under different political, cultural, and structural systems, with different inputs, and most of the time “supporting the values” doesn’t necessarily mean supporting the pragmatics - let alone adopting the role of someone actually driving and pushing every day to get this sort of project funded, supported, known about, popularised, paid for, and then built, run, and maintained.
So is that you? OR - do you - like most people - “value” these sorts of things on an esoteric, personal level… But you’re mired in other states of being still.
There’s meaning, then there’s meaningful. We all mean well, but few of us are capable of meaningful actions on this scale.
So the question either needs this sort of understanding automatically (so everyone knows the pragmatics), or to be turned on the person asking? Don’t you? Where’s your meaningful action?
It’s probably down here with the rest of us, which is what makes it uplifting when one person manages to have the skills and opportunities to put themselves in a position where they can step up, and they actually do something.
Most people do value these things, they just don’t have the political power to enact them.
The people who do have that level of power see it as a move that wouldn’t help them, and would hinder their political goals in other areas (they don’t have an infinite budget, and they have people to pay or whom they owe favours).
…and those who have this sort of money to burn, only got that money by being tight fisted and ruthless, so lost the mental agility and empathy to do this sort of thing.
But yes, the majority of poor, tired, politically disempowered people do support this sort of thing… Then a swath of them think “but I could never go to such a place, too many wheelchairs and gross children” and another group thinks “Don’t we have better things to spend money on,? Local parks, drunk driving issues, business relief”… So it becomes a question of a whole hierarchy of values.
Different values win under different political, cultural, and structural systems, with different inputs, and most of the time “supporting the values” doesn’t necessarily mean supporting the pragmatics - let alone adopting the role of someone actually driving and pushing every day to get this sort of project funded, supported, known about, popularised, paid for, and then built, run, and maintained.
So is that you? OR - do you - like most people - “value” these sorts of things on an esoteric, personal level… But you’re mired in other states of being still.
There’s meaning, then there’s meaningful. We all mean well, but few of us are capable of meaningful actions on this scale.
So the question either needs this sort of understanding automatically (so everyone knows the pragmatics), or to be turned on the person asking? Don’t you? Where’s your meaningful action?
It’s probably down here with the rest of us, which is what makes it uplifting when one person manages to have the skills and opportunities to put themselves in a position where they can step up, and they actually do something.