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The Disenchantment of the World
Our ancestors felt a less clearly defined sense of individual identity, but the boundaries of their self was more porous than is ours. They felt a deeper connection with with their community and with their environment. Nowadays, the individualis is sealed up, so to speak, in a shell independent existence. And so the sense of separation, both from another and from the environment, i think, is generally much stronger now than it was for our ancestors.