Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having slain the dragon of international communism, the U.S. is now flirting with the distinctively American bad idea of isolationism, just as it did after the First World War. This turning inward is now, as it was then, dangerously shortsighted. If worse comes to worst here, Boris Yeltsin may give way to a Russia-Firster like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has fascistic tendencies, territorial ambitions and an ominously large popular following. The U.S. might then find itself dragged back into another open-ended international crisis that would make the meagerness of its current aid program seem penny-wise and pound-foolish...
BGLSA Co-Chair Sandi DuBowski '92 agrees. "I think a lot of communities at Harvard look inward and don't seek to link up with other communities," he says...
...succeed, many say, such groups must turn their attention both inward and outward. Of course, they must create an atmosphere where all members of a particular group feel comfortable. But perhaps the greater task is ensuring that such groups do not exist in a vaccum, that each individual group plays a constructive role within Harvard's community of difference...
...Angeles, for example, is one of the most segregated cities in the world -- a horizontal automobile culture sectioned off into a patchwork of ethnic and racial enclaves, all almost self-sufficient, inward turning and immiscible. The middle- and upper-middle-class whites of West Los Angeles, of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and Westwood and Brentwood and Bel-Air, drift dreamily along in the illusion that the society still belongs to them. In important ways, it does, of course. But out across the city grids lie Koreatown and Chinatown; and Watts, for so long a black enclave, is changing into...
...That doesn't give you a sense of psychological well-being. Part of what drives these people is realizing that the promise of the Horatio Alger story is a myth. They didn't know that money would be so dissatisfying when it finally arrived. Yet instead of turning inward and saying, "I need a mid- course correction here," you get more of the same. They don't say, "If $200,000 didn't make me happy, why should $300,000?" It's bad logic. It's what I call well-intentioned self-destruction. Why not switch to more control...