Above all, a healthy community is built upon love. Without love, we have nothing. Wilhelm Reich, in his book Character Analysis, speaks of the difficulty of building healthy communities in a society that suffers from an emotional plague, or an inability to love:
The term emotional plague has no defamatory connotations. It does not refer to conscious malice, moral or biological degeneration, immorality, etc. An organism which, from birth, is constantly impeded in its natural way of locomotion develops artificial forms of locomotion. It limps or moves on crutches. Similarly, an individual moves through life by the means of the emotional plague if, from birth, his natural, self-regulatory life manifestations have been suppressed. ...
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