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Accountability in an Unaccountable World |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT? |
| Author: Frank Keating |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 3,409 Words, 20,129 Characters |
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Less than a year ago, my wife and I moved into an apartment, awaiting the remodeling of a home we had purchased in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. About six months later we moved out; the house was largely completed and it was time to leave our temporary rental life behind. Apartment living was pleasant. The landscaping was picturesque, and the fitness center assured at least the opportunity of good health. But there was one thing about my tenant days that stunned me. Despite the close quarters, I never met my neighbors, neither the couple upstairs nor the people on either side. I never met them, although I saw them occasionally. I heard their music and their cars and an ultraloud cough now and then, but I never said a word to any of them, and they never said a word to me. They might as wel...
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...ing voices. They seek solace in solitude, asking to be left alone to do their own thing as they see fit. They decline to be judgmental or to interfere in the lives of others, so long as those others don't harm them, their pocketbook, their kids, or their sense of self.
It's not much in the way of structured accountability, but it works. And it will have to do because it's what people want.
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