![]() ![]() The places you'll see it are high school gyms, city sidewalks, the subway, bus stations, public parks, parking lots, and wherever people gather during natural disasters. It's not done on television, on the Internet, or over the telephone our electronic systems can only tell us if the leap made elsewhere has succeeded or failed. It's done in public spaces, face-to-face, where anyone is free to go. ![]() You do it for reasons unexplainable by economics-for ambition, out of conviction, for the heck of it, in playfulness, for love. It's not a product or a service that anyone will pay you for. ![]() This leap is made in public, and it's made for free. The idea does not truly live unless it is expressed by an act the country does not live unless we make the leap from our tribe or focus group or gated community or demographic, and land on the shaky platform of that idea of a good country which all kinds of different people share. ![]() What SuAnne Big Crow demonstrated in the Lead high school gym is that making the leap is the whole point. No one has ever known for sure whether a country based on such an idea is really possible, but again and again, we have leaped toward the idea and hoped. The truth is, it always has been a bit of a guess. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness nowadays most of us probably could not describe it a lot more clearly than that. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. ![]()
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