The Malaise of Citizenship
• https://www.lewrockwell.comFor at least a half-century, and demonstrably and palpably since 1972 (and perhaps since November 22, 1963), the American public, first the fringes and then the majority, has become disillusioned with the national government and apathetic or cynical
I submit that we haven't lost our citizenship at all, but quite the contrary. I believe these are the ends to which the means has seved. The ultimate goal of democratic citizenship en masse. A docile, apathetic & ignorent populace such as that referred to in Plato's Allagory of the Cave. Might you be referring, rather, to the civic pride and sense of duty of old? Inherent in the people of old? It is that which has given way to total citizenship.