Every society is built on unique communities within their broader context. Each of these communities produce an environment where the individual can contribute to ideas that are bigger than themselves.
What’s more, communities provide a special place for the individual perspective to be considered at its own worth rather than being lost within or diluted by the widely diverging ideas that surround it.
When individual perspectives, with similar but different experiences, collide in one coherent community, each of those perspectives unite to produce concepts, innovations, and perspectives that strengthen the individual and give life to the community as a whole.
Individuals, separated from some kind of communal reality, are devoid of authenticity and unique contribution, since the individual cannot compare itself by itself. Individual authenticity is completely dependent on the comparative reality inherent in community.
The challenge with authenticity’s reliance on community is the equal challenge of finding the ideal community where the individual perspective can make a marked impact. True, healthy communities that give license to the individual perspectives within are inherently protective of their ecosystem and therefore difficu...
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