...because they were in the Communist Party they were no longer nameless drones, without rights; they were linked up to something really big which extended to every part of the world, the revolution round the corner. A better world.... Gornick's story is of how idealism shapes us, brings out the best and the worst. That hook on the soul turned ordinary men and women, living in a kind of animal twilight, into people who felt themselves no longer alone but intimately connected with the fate of all humanity...[Gornick sees the soul of radicalism] as born of an innate need to defeat isolation, the struggle of us all to humanize ourselves and what that leads to, engagement.Not so different from what Demosophia was talking about. A lot of people end up adopting a set of attitudes and behaviors (political, religious, and as consumers, to name a few) so they can fit in with their friends.
Me, I'm pretty isolated.
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