One of the things we are supposed to be celebrating in this era of social media, open-source everything, citizen journalism, and various forms of "super-enabling" Internet politics is how it frees us from having to rely on authority.
That's why, in spite of everything, Hong Kong citizens and representatives would press on against a regime where the tree of democracy remains "non-existent".
The left and the right don't disagree about whether food banks are the government admitting that it can't provide everything its citizens need.
It's lucky to be a bit of everything, a citizen of everywhere and nowhere.
No film-maker was more revered by movie lovers than the original boy wonder Orson Welles, the very model of cocksure precocity, a proven genius at 25 for whom everything after Citizen Kane was an evermore forlorn postscript.
In recent years, we have seen this take a variety of forms, everything from citizen journalism, to being a point of focus for political movements and social/charitable causes.
It's dense and dark and cool-looking and it does just about everything a Citizen or Seiko hiking watch can do but with a styling and UI that is instantly agreeable.
It might not have the household name recognition of Hollywood (or even Burbank), but Culver City – a five square mile slip just south of the 10 freeway and east of Venice Beach – has been one of LA's major neighbourhoods for TV and film production for nearly 100 years, with everything from Citizen Kane to Arrested Development being filmed within its borders.
He has been featured on several of the biggest comedy podcasts including WTF with Marc Maron, Comedy & Everything Else, Citizen Radio, The Sound of Young America, and Jordan, Jesse, GO!, and is a regular correspondent on The War Room on Current TV.
There developed a collective ideal of devotion to the community: the city-state (polis) was everything to its citizens; the city made its citizens what they were mankind.
