What the writer Rebecca Solnit has called capitalism’s “ideology of isolation” encourages us to ignore all of the ways we are, in fact, mutually dependent.3 When we are shamed into denying the gift of care that we all need, we turn inward and put up defences, which only makes the world seem more inhospitable and hostile and ourselves more adrift and lost. In reality, other people are our best and most reliable form of security—the security of working with others to create a more caring society.
