The General was a career soldier of an Eastern Bloc army, involuntarily hosting a sample of the enemy he had spent his professional life training to fight. I felt for him.
“An activist is a soldier in a social or cultural war. A citizen is a member of a political community, a group of individuals who recognize that they have responsibilities to one another."
These are places where people meet, walk, greet friends and talk or just sit and “people watch.” However defined, these are places that include and create and reinforce a sense community.
