Small communities which share a sense of the common good are also often repositories for unexamined prejudice, scapegoating, bullying and ressentiment.
One must attend to the realities of human character formation. And if one looks to the social and political contexts in which character is formed, it is difficult not to notice that local communities which share a common sense of the good life regularly purchase that solidarity by also having an excluded and reviled other. That sense of feeling good is more often than not based on a sense of superiority to that hated 'other' in the community.
One must attend to the realities of human character formation. And if one looks to the social and political contexts in which character is formed, it is difficult not to notice that local communities which share a common sense of the good life regularly purchase that solidarity by also having an excluded and reviled other. That sense of feeling good is more often than not based on a sense of superiority to that hated 'other' in the community.
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