The curtains blur the sunlight from the outside world. The television distracts from the sounds generated by strangers. Fifty years ago we vilified our neighbors as "Communists" utilizing McCarthyism as a weapon of mass separation. The individualistic culture imposed on the Americans has failed to harness communitarian values. Our social circles reflect coteries rather than tribes, social networking for self benefit over the consolidation of intellectual minds, and competition over coalition. We flaunt our borders over our civility for humanity and moralize ourselves as givers because taking insinuates inadequacies. Relationships harbor vulnerabilities and over exposure yet without their existence we would be the last of our breed. The family is no longer a nuclear unit confined to the walls of a household. The bloc party begins with the instruments of unison and collaboration. We must all be malleable to the requests of our neighbors as they must be malleable to our concerns.
Community matters. Involvement matters. The good we fight for matters. Even though in the end we will all be matter.
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