The Common Life Analysis

In “The Common Life” by Scott Russell Sanders the author gives the audience a clear view of what his ideas about the relationship between the individual and society of the United States. In his writing his main idea is that society and a way an individual is perceived ways heavily in the lives of many. To the way they are judged with constant eyes all around them, watching everything you do. He sees the faults in our society and distinctly points them out. This essay of 1994 has not changed in current times but has changed for the much worse.
I feel like today in current times the situation that Sanders described has become much worse. We are losing and mostly have “lost something essential to our society.” This something is humanity, what it means to be human. To encounter with others and having long life relationships without …show more content…
They are not “taking part in the common life” they are not “dwelling in a web of relationships” they easily hide. And this can be easily be brought back to a psychological issue. I feel that people do this because they do not want to be constantly judged for what they do, they are afraid of being depended on, they are afraid of having any type of responsibility that is not their own. Even though it may be inhuman it has its reasons to it.
This shows us what type of relationship that has been created within an individual and a society. The relationship is the less people know about you, the less they know who you are the less responsibility we have. And it shouldn't be like that. People have the right to live the lives they see fit without being judged. Our community instead of being “more vulnerable” it should become stronger. As an individual in one's society we have the responsibility to create bonds and not to leave one person behind. Creating this bond will change many mindsets of the idea of hiding who they