It goes to the producers of flour and butter, to the people who deliver those ingredients,
to the purveyors of the gasoline used by the delivery vehicles,
to people in the oil-producing countries where that fuel comes from, and so on. So it’s all connected.
People are never truly alone or separate from community, and cannot be.
YOUTH: “So you’re saying I should fantasize more when I buy bread?
PHILOSOPHER: “It is not fantasy. It is fact. The community Adler speaks of goes beyond things we can see,
like our households and societies, to include those connections that we cannot see.
YOUTH: “Excuse me for saying so, but you’re escaping into abstract theory.
The issue we should be addressing here is the sense of belonging, that ‘it’s okay to be here.’
And then, with regard to the meaning of this sense of belonging, it is the community we can see that is stronger.
You will agree with that, won’t you? For example, if we compare the ‘company’ community with the ‘earth’ community,
the sense of belonging of someone who says ‘I am a member of this company’ would be stronger.
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