Just a really good quote from Wendell Berry. As with Plato, the state of a community reflects the state of the soul. This is what the "realists" ignore.
“The disease of the modern character is
specialization. Looked at from the standpoint of the social system, the aim of specialization may
seem desirable enough. The aim is to see that the responsibilities of
government, law, medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, etc., are given
into the hands of the most skilled, best prepared people. The difficulties do
not appear until we look at specialization from the opposite standpoint – that
of individual persons. We then begin to see the grotesquery – indeed, the
impossibility – of an idea of community wholeness that divorces itself from any
idea of personal wholeness.” Wendell Berry, The
Unsettling of America, p. 19.
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