The blog post, shared over four hundred thousand times under a banner reading “Remember When Things Were Simple?”, walks readers through ten folksy values — waving at neighbors, leaving doors unlocked, “knowing who belonged” — illustrated with sepia-toned clip art and a recipe for lemon bars wedged between values six and seven.

Nowhere in the eleven-hundred-word post does it specify which neighbors were doing the waving, who got to leave their door unlocked, or what, precisely, “knowing who belonged” required of everyone else. The comments are, per usual, uniformly grateful for the reminder.