Absences of Community

Abstract

Humans always search for a sense of community, in order to transcent their individuality and project themselves as part of a group. This human craving is actually a desire for an absence of community; an "empty place to bury our ineradicable solitude", a form of universal community which is yet to come and in which one doesn't necessarily have to have anything in common with it's other members

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