Innis

Not better policy. Better policy follows from somewhere and that somewhere is not a legislature. Thrift is a habit and honesty is a habit and the willingness to be responsible for your neighbour is a habit and habits are formed in families and in churches and in the voluntary associations that sit between the person and the state and do the work the state claims to do but cannot do because it does not know anyone's name. These institutions were not destroyed by malice. They were made redundant, slowly, by a system that told people it would handle things, and now the handling has to be relearned by people who were never taught it. That is the work. It is not fast and it is not political and there is no election that accomplishes it.