Scott Mann

So they said, all right, nobody's coming.

Let's, you and me have a meeting.

And they called it Alcoholics Anonymous.

And that meeting obviously spurned into years later, you know, millions and millions of people in recovery, including me.

You know, I've been in AA for 24 years now, you know, as a result of that meeting of these two dudes.

But it wasn't just AA.

During that same period of like 1900 to 1910, Rotary Club,

the Kiwanis Club, the Elks Club, the Junior League, the NAACP, Future Farmers of America.

Pretty much every bridging trust, community-based organization that you and I have ever known in our life started in that period.

And it was all bottom up, all grassroots, when nobody else was coming.

And it ushered in the longest running period of social capital in American history.

It went from 1900 to 1972.

And then in 72, the downswing started again with Vietnam.

And we've been on it ever since.

But a lot of social scientists, and myself included, I'm not a social scientist, but I agree with them, I think that we could be on the cusp of another upswing.

That there is evidence of a large number of movements that are happening.

And again, look at what you did with that petition.

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