“In a lonely world like ours, it is tempting to seek community, any community, as a good in itself. In a world like ours, people will be attracted to communities that promise them an easy way out of loneliness. There is then little check on community becoming as tyrannical as the individual ego. Community becomes totalitarian when its only purpose is to foster a sense of belonging in order to overcome the fragility of the lone individual.”
~ Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens