A speaker recounts Ben Greenfield's observation contrasting two views of 'home': as a rooted, spiritual community-centered place that is deeply cherished, versus as a transient, career-focused dwelling treated instrumentally. The excerpt discusses how these views shape the priority given to home and community involvement.
And then Ben pointed something out to me that I never thought about before. If you consider your environment, your home, your condo, your apartment, whatever, to be kind of like this transient, temporary place where you dwell for a short period of time and your life is built around that concept of maybe being nomadic, not being tied down to a certain community, not necessarily having a central gathering place for a family, being a little bit more focused on career, personal achievements. Some of the aspects of just like the importance of the home, I think, tend to go down a little bit. You really cherish your home, not just back to the metaphysical, as like a deeply spiritual place where your family gathers, that I consider to be like my castle, and you have roots in your community, that's probably a place that you're going to prioritize quite a bit. Whereas if you view a home as just like a transient, temporary place where you just do business before you move on to the next spot, I think it is going to be treated a little bit differently in terms of how much you prioritize that.
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