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Source: Francesca Tighinean

I think also part of the problem is that when we learn about community, we learn that part of its function is that it can even support the people who are unable to “pull their own weight” in contribution– the people that individualist capitalists (who disregard the importance of community) like to describe as “burdens”

And when the world as it is makes us all suffer so much, it is easy for nearly all of us to think we are among the ones so broken, so disabled by the ravages of this world, that a community would have to support us and we’d be unable to offer anything in return

It really can feel like that. There are times when the exhaustion is that deep

And it’s possible, with so many mass-disabling events, that there will be a time when this really is the biggest obstacle to community– that there will be fewer people physically, mentally and emotionally capable of doing the labor than there are people who will need to benefit from it

but this is the fault of a world that rejected community for so long.

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