…The commons marked the center of a shared world… By happenstance and intention, people met and talked together with some sense of a shared stake, something in common. … a place where the diverse parts of a community could come together and hold a conversation within a shared sense of participation and responsibility.
Suggested Discussion Questions:
1. What are your reactions to this text? What are the different ideas being conveyed here?
2. What does it mean to have a “shared world”? A “shared stake”?
3. When does that happen today?
4. Have you ever felt differently about someone once you knew something personal about them? What was that like, and why might it have happened?
Time Period: Contemporary (The Yom Kippur War until the present-day)