<div dir="ltr">Yes to Ikegami's "Bonds of Civility"and her other book "Taming of the Samurai".<div><br></div><div>Carl</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 4:14 PM David Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu">desmith@santafe.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">This idea of places where people of different walks “encounter each other” — or even better have something meaningful to do with each other, has an interesting role at a certain period of social change in Japan.<div><br></div><div>From a friend and colleague:</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-Civility-Aesthetic-Political-Structural/dp/0521601150" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-Civility-Aesthetic-Political-Structural/dp/0521601150</a></div><div>The author argues that the creation of “publics” was an important social innovation in getting around the codified barriers in an officially feudal society, de facto before it was possible de jure.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 13, 2020, at 1:27 PM, <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This should do it!<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.kirkusreviews.com%2fbook-reviews%2fmichael-j-sandel%2fthe-tyranny-of-merit%2f&c=E,1,KxR3VUYiFyLi-9EwiZchRYJULv3vw8vndRDcdK-uHjMLLKBRYDsCsP1hohZZXJCvy_3Wg6yv4vV6bk_km46AMUuQUaM_Qj2dG6Q3Q4KJ8BMOPSaB&typo=1" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-j-sandel/the-tyranny-of-merit/</a><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The thesis is that “meritocracy” is the cause of the fact that the us is now the least socially mobile country among the western democracies. <span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nick<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nicholas Thompson<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Clark University<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,gKsz360cU5H_ketjmPQBEhJptprQAdBbicogUNQHhZRFUFrFaQn3tzXvVm0GLJIvOuwFz42i1kHyDLNM4llt9i9QTj7aeCxZ7N4DrFX08icRvAg35Zk,&typo=1" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:n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