If your life is centered in family, community, faith…

If your life is centered in family, community, faith, or nation, and things aren't going well for you, surely there will be some person or some part of an institution to whom you are connected for whom or where things are going well, or, at least, where the problems seem more important than yours. If, however, your life is centered on pure individualism and something goes poorly, there is no counterweight. You feel bad and nothing pulls on you in the other direction.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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