This book, almost 100 years old, is more relevant today than the day it was published. This book is a demand that we engage with the present as it is given, not as it is described by others to us. The anxiety, fear, and constant state of confusion we move through in late modernity can only be overcome by reconstituting the individual, yourself, ourselves, which can only be done in collaboration with the community and society you live in.

It is only through this active, and intentional participation with the present, with your fellow neighbor, that individuality can be reconstituted. Then and only then can we in community overcome the malaise of late modernity of which the elites - through the corporatization of America (and the world) - have intentionally removed the tools and pathways through which we can overcome this atomized, morally confused, modern self.

We must rely upon each other in the culture and community we are constituted within *today* and not on some ahistorical ideals constructed in some a long-ago dead culture.