Is there any room for community in the face of today’s worldwide focus on a virus pandemic? Merriam-Webster defines community as “a unified body of individuals…with a common history or common social, economic, and political interests.” It’s also representative of “a social state or condition.” At our core, we human beings are all connected. Is Community Lost? Professor Kelly Goldsmith is a scarcity expert at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. In a recent Business Insider issue, she commented on the current Coronavirus panic buying that empties shelves of hand sanitizer, bottled water, and toilet paper. She wrote, “when people are experiencing personal scarcity, they want to protect themselves first.” We humans can be quite altruistic in times of plenty. But, introduce a threat to our personal well-being and we transform into self-preservation mode. Our U.S. society and culture rewards independence and self-reliance. That works well when everything is going smoothly. When you introduce disruptions like strong political posturing, scarcity, or Coronavirus, we tend not to focus on the greater...
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