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was very great, the one for the other. The same was true out in the great western spaces. But you get in to New York City, and you get into the subways, and you are jammed bodily against ten people-- touching you-- you just couldn’t be tighter, and you just can’t be neighborly. There is an error that says proximity means neighborliness. There are fundamentals of what is a tolerable range within which you really can become usefully intimate with another human being, he having his degrees of freedom, not trespassing on one another, yet really getting to know each other because you choose to know each other, not because you are being forced together. So I find that every individual today has just as many friends as any human being ever had, and probably more, but they don’t live next door. They don’t necessarily even live on the same street. They live halfway across town, or in the next town, or halfway around the world. That’s where they are. everybody has their communities… It is a wonderful kind of community, it is really knitting together as a world understanding.
