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An Unhinged Democracy in AmericaNEW YORK – Alexis de Tocqueville, a liberal French aristocrat, visited the United States in 1831 ostensibly to write a study of its “enlightened” prison system (locking people up in solitary confinement like penitent monks was the latest modern idea).

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These were typically not solitary efforts.

It happened again about 120 or a 140 million years ago when some solitary wasps began creating little simple, primitive nests, or hives.

Anyway, but I guess my point is that all of these enterprises are engaging to me in their multiplicity, but as I've presented them to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them.

We're not a solitary mind built out of properties that kept it alive in the world independent of other people.

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