Catastrophe can permanently erase the felt separation between self and neighbors

Evidence

Never even when the four walls of one’s own room in a new city shall close around us again shall we sense the old lonesomeness shutting us off from our neighbors. Never again shall we feel singled out by fate for the hardships and ill luck that’s going. And that is the sweetness and the gladness of the earthquake and the fire. Not of bravery nor of strength, nor of a new city, but of a new inclusiveness. The joy in the other fellow. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 466

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal; Disaster can permanently dissolve the loneliness separating neighbors.; Collective action can reframe self-estrangement from dread into transcendence — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1089 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal; Disaster can permanently dissolve the loneliness separating neighbors.; Collective action can reframe self-estrangement from dread into transcendence — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1089 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Disaster can permanently dissolve the loneliness separating neighbors. #corroborates (0.94)
• The reflexive impulse to mirror others is part of our collective affliction #complicates (0.74) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 714
• The existential dread of separation drives the wish to sink back into the Whole #complicates (0.73) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 677