Community

 Someone said there is a real need for community, because it is easier to ignore someone you don’t know.  It is easier to be prejudiced, dismissive, afraid of people you don’t know.  People of different skin color or language, or economic status tend to “keep to their own kind” as the song in “West Side Story” proposes.  Community is built on perceived differences coming together, getting to know and serve one another.  If we know someone only for what they can do for us, from what we can get from them, that will not be community.  They are simply useful to our wants.  Community means getting to know someone simply because they are “someone” and not “no one.”  It is hard work but makes for a more fulfilling life.  The rich are not so happy as you imagine.