In popular
culture, Nixon's America had Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and, as the
end of that presidency neared, Charles Bronson in Death Wish, both explicit reactions to the crumbling of cities and the Great Society's emphasis on shifting
blame for minority crime from personal responsibility to social inequality.
We might envision a
culture of strengths where if you walk into a store, a school, a youth club, or a fitness center in any of Cincinnati's neighborhoods, you hear people discussing one another's character strengths; where if you conducted a ratio of strength words heard to problem /
blaming words heard as you walk the streets, the scale would be far tipped on the strengths
end; or if you ask any person in a school, business, healthcare clinic, government agency, or youth organization — what are you top strengths and do you use them each day?