Hoarding soul inside interiority, we feel justified in also hoarding resources; we take more than we need to avoid the terrifying sense of being “small, amidst many bits and pieces that do not seem to cohere.” We act out of self-interest rather than in the interest of the whole. Too afraid to relinquish our partitions, we relinquish our membership

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Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Community is

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