What We Owe Each Other

The human is a social animal. It always has been, and it always will be. To abandon that essential fact about us is to destroy us. Live together or die alone. A human who rejects society and goes off to live entirely alone has always--everywhere--been regarded as a a saint or a mystic or a madman. Everywhere.

We have a myth, in this country, that we are rugged individualists, and that we need