Give To The Max in 2021

Several years ago, I learned about the importance of virtue signaling in promoting cultural change. I think of it as the valuable counterpoint to dog whistling, which subtly promotes something that needs to remain hidden. If you ride your bicycle to a restaurant, don't take off your helmet until after you've walked past other diners to reach your own seat. Put the idea into people's heads that the desired behavior is possible, even if it's far back in the recesses of their subconscious peripheral awareness. At least it's there, and it's a practice that is returning (free archive copy).

So, in planning for the upcoming Give To The Max day in Minnesota which brings virtue signaling to the statewide level, I'm arranging my thoughts now for groups that I'll support.  ( Read more... )

Does anyone know if there's an equivalent to The New Yorker for life here in Minnesota?  Beyond the fictional Prairie Home Companion, I mean.